Al; you can also type "scanreg /restore" (no quotes) at a dos prompt, it should show some recent backups of your system that you can restore from. If that doesn't work, and you can't boot to safe mode, you may have to re-install windows. I have found that incompatible memory can be responsible for these kind of errors. | --|--------------------------- | ><> Larry Fisk <>< | Fisk Computers | Fruitvale, Idaho ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Kohout" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [PCBUILD] CRASH!! > Our newly built computer using Windows 98 has crashed! > Then it shows the C prompt. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml