Right click on the "my computer" icon on your desktop and choose properties. Choose the "device manager" tab and check to see how many hard drives, display adapters, monitors, imaging devices, and modems are shown as being installed. Win 98 SE reinstalls stuff you already have for some unknown reason.  I usually get 3 or 4 monitors.  If you have more than one default monitor, delete them all.  You may have more than one modem showing even if you have only one.  It is best to delete all of them and start a new installation, but since you are a novice, try deleting just one and see what happens on a restart.  What happens is that Windows is having a hard time finishing loading, thus you get the DOS screen you are seeing.  Many times it will load OK after that, but sometimes it will only go into safe mode.  If you are never going into safe mode, then your problem may be different.

>
>When starting Windows, the screen stops at the page where you have the
>option to load 1 for Normal, 3 for safe etc.  I just choose normal and it
>starts up ok then.  (It never used to stop there so don't know what I have
>done to it).  This happens every time when I start the computer.
>
>Also, although the computer shuts down ok, the keyboard light remains on so
>I have to turn it off at the rear of the tower as well to get that light to
>go off.
>
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