I've come across this problem, what solved the problem for
me, and 5 other pc's, was isolating the cd-rom.  Buy,
borrow, etc another ide cable and plug the cd-rom on its own
instead of daisy chaining it.

Bob Wright wrote:
>
> At 09:48 PM 4/28/98 -0400, Kenneth V. Vickery wrote:
> >Here is a strange one for you:
> >
> >After turning off my Pentium 233MMX with the Win95 blue screen of "wait
> >while..." still showing (after a couple of minutes I just got tired of
> >waiting for it to give me the "okay to turn off..."), I rebooted and
> >Nortons ran its check and everything worked well.  However, when I shut
> >down a second time I got the usual "wait while..." and then it gave me
> >the "okay to turn off..." amber screen BUT ALSO WRITTEN ON THE SCREEN IN
> >LARGE THIN LETTERS WAS: C:\>   It appears as part of the screen but the
> >letters are almost a phantom but very enlarged on the right upper
> >quadrant of the screen.  (The dot of each colon shows up as four pixels
> >in a "square" spaced about 3/16" apart.)  It seems to cause no problem.
> >Any idea on how to get rid of the "ghost"?