Ok, last Friday I had a machine come in with some booting problems. It is a win98FE box, and here are the symptoms. It boots, almost gets to the desktop, but never does. The only thing that happens is that the task bar appears for a split second, and then disappears. After this happens, the machine stops any hard drive activity. It is not locked up. I can still bring up the task manager, but nothing running that appears to be strange. I ran our Sophos antivirus dos level scanner on it, but came up clean. It was late in the day and I figured I would check it out on Monday (today) The kicker is, that I just got three more machines in today with the same exact problem and symptoms. All of them are either 98FE or SE. Anyone else run into this?