Have a 486 DX-100 with 16 megs running windows 95b. Lately upon powering
up it gets to the point of starting windows 95 and then it freezes.
Contrl-alt-del does not reboot it. I have to hit the reset, then it loads
with the message windows was not shut down properly, precedes to run
scandisk and then boots up normally as if nothing is wrong.

 It does this only on cold boots where power was shut off and until
recently would only ocasionaly freeze at startup.  Seems to happening more
frequently lately.

I have looked at the device manager for any conflicts and the system
reports it is configured for optimal performance.

Since it does load properly on the second attempt I do believe it is a
hardware problem. Are there any settings in the bios that I need to look
at or change? Any other ideas? Will creating a bootlog.txt file upon
loading give me any clues?

BTW the cpu is a Cyrix chip.

Thanks;  John



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