Hello Ian Porter,
>Over the last few days my new PC has begun spontaneously rebooting - sometimes after a few
>minutes running, sometimes an hour or so.  There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it, it
>just flips out to a black screen, then restarts...

 The only way to solve this problem is to go to the beginning.
 First, use the minimal hardware config to start with (FDD, CD, NIC
 etc. should be removed).
 Second, start with two step loading Win98 (first Norton Com & second
 Win98).
 Your task is to get the stable mode (one hour & more) and after that
 you can add one more hardware next.

 It is also disirable to fix the Power managements in Control Panel in
 NEVER mode for Display, HDD, etc. No Screen saver to use too.

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Best regards,
 Yakymakha                          mailto:[log in to unmask]

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