A friends PC freezes with no error messages on restart. Shutdown works great and it boots up cold just fine. There are no obvious suspect problems in MSCONFIG; I have shut down virtually all startup programs with no fix. It is a PII NEC system, sorry little other stats on system. Running WIN98 a CDRW and CDROM drive. Have run scandisk-no errors. Only program running at startup is Norton v-scan. The lock-up occurs at the first splash screen and if I CTRL-ALT-DELETE it goes one step further to AUTO-EXEC but no more then I have to power down.

Also: No conflicts in device manager; occurs with programs running, as part of an install, safe mode, or with no programs running just for the heck of it!