Well...I just wanted to see what you guys thought...here is what Im running...I have a AMD K2 HP Pavilion 350 mHz with 4 gig hd, 32meg RAM and Win 98 The problem is...every other time I boot up, the system freezes on the screen where it tells you how many files were scanned and infected. After it freezes, I restart and the computer is forced into safe mode. When I reboot out of safe mode Win 98 starts no problem. When I shut it down, and reboot, the system boots into Win 98 fine. The next time I try to boot though...the system hangs again and the process starts over I have scanned for viruses with Nortons and McAfee, but found nothing. I thought it might be a memory problem and went into DOS to check it. I ran MEM command and it said I had only 636 K in conventional memory. I also have no memory in the upper or reserved area. Is this common with Win 98? I was under the assumption that DOS always ran 640 K in conventional memory with an additional 384 K to round it up to 1 meg? Do I have bad RAM? A virus? By the way, I checked the config.sys file and both Himem.sys and EXX386.exe are both loading. Can anyone help me? It's really driving me nuts heh If you would like I would appreciate an email answer to dj_tet@yahoo.com Thanks everyone :)

every other time I boot up, the system freezes on the screen where it tells you how many files were scanned and infected Gee, sounds like your virus scanner is corrupted or is causing the freezing up. Turn it off.

that is a good idea...I will try that when I get home...but that doesnt really explain the DOS memory situation... does anyone know if that alocation is normal or why that would happen?

Heh, McAffee has a problem w/ their dos based protion of virus scan on boot up, remove the line from your autoexec.bat As for the mem, yes that is fairly normal. Here we go... DOS has er was designed around the assumption that you wour NEVER need much less have more than 640KB of memory. DOS has 640KB base memory, and DOS its self takes up some of that 640KB, so you having 636KB of base mem is good. As for the rest of the DOS memory model, it's too late to go in to that (1:30 am). Look up memory management in any DOS book and see if you get confused, I know that I do.

have you used 1x single 32m module or are you using multiple modules. Mixing ram types is not really recommended as the bios, in some cases, has problems with this