I'm the person the techie from Dell was trying to help. Recently, when I start the computer, it quickly reads the DVD rom drive and then goes straight into a screen that (DOS text on the left, small Dell logo at the top right) list the legacy devices, keyboard, zip, etc.
and then at the end has "pres <Del> to Resume". Once I do that, I boots normally. I did a google groups search and found two references to this problem, both in bios. One said to clear the event log. The other, for a windows ME (I'm using Win 98 second edition) said to enable quiet boot.
I tried both, with no luck. The first tech I spoke to at Dell tried to tell me it was my A drive (!) but I still suspect it may be something simpler.
When I boot from a boot disk, the same screen comes up. When I "restart in DOS mode" the problem doesn't occur.
I hadn't installed any new software for about a week previously.
Any suggestions?
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