I think you have a race going.  The Imqxxx programs are trying to
initialize and start before the USB Zip100 is recognized and configured.  I
used a freeware program called "after.exe" to resolve similar problems with
one of my setups.  It delays execution of a program until after a user
defined number of seconds.  I set my time (30-40 seconds) to give the
external device long enough to get recognized and configured.  This program
also works well where a lot of programs are trying to start at once in the
Startup group. I have used the program to stagger the execution of programs
in the startup group.

You can get it at:

http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-1461989-101-885342.html

Doug


At 10/18/00 11:21 AM, edwhitnall wrote:


>I just installed a new external USB Zip100 drive to my Dell XPS H255
>machine.
>
>Problem: When Windows 98 boots it will intermittently "hang". Pressing
>Cnt-Alt-Del tells me that either Imqstart or Imqicon are not responding.
>When I run msconfig, select Start, and remove the check marks from the two
>Iomega items, the machine boot normally. The Iomega Zip drives work fine
>without those items being checked. What gives?

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