Stops at logo screen

W98SE is loaded. This machine worked, was normally shut down.

Two days later I booted up, it stops at the mfg logo screen in POST, I
understand. I was advised to hold down the CTRL key, no help. Also, now the
power switch does not shut power off, have to pull the plug.

How to get past the logo screen?

ms

Can you access BIOS setup? The key to use (such as DEL or F1) should be
displayed on screen. If so, go through each setting and confirm it is set
to the proper value. Alternatively, you might find an option to restore a
default standard setting. Disable anything you aren't using.

Set the boot device to the floppy and try booting to a DOS disk.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"ms" wrote in message
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W98SE is loaded. This machine worked, was normally shut down.

Two days later I booted up, it stops at the mfg logo screen in POST, I
understand. I was advised to hold down the CTRL key, no help. Also, now
the
power switch does not shut power off, have to pull the plug.

How to get past the logo screen?

ms

A defective or misconfigured hard drive can cause this. Open the case, unplug
the hard drive, then see if it boots from the floppy drive or at least displays
an error message.

Ben

"ms" wrote in message ...
W98SE is loaded. This machine worked, was normally shut down.

Two days later I booted up, it stops at the mfg logo screen in POST, I
understand. I was advised to hold down the CTRL key, no help. Also, now the
power switch does not shut power off, have to pull the plug.

How to get past the logo screen?

ms

ms wrote in :

W98SE is loaded. This machine worked, was normally shut down.

Two days later I booted up, it stops at the mfg logo screen in POST, I
understand. I was advised to hold down the CTRL key, no help. Also,
now the power switch does not shut power off, have to pull the plug.

How to get past the logo screen?

ms

Thanks to Jeff and Ben. It will be a few days until I can work on this
machine, will post back.

ms