Blue screen at bootup.

[Phat]

I'm running an MSI MS-6163, Celeron 466 (running at default 466), 128mb sdram, Quantum Fireball EX 6.4gb, Creative Riva TNT 16mb AGP, Diamond Data 50x CDROM and a Ricoh MP7040A CDRW.

My problem is that maybe 1 in 3 times I boot up I get a blue screen before it even gets into Windows (Win98 SE) and I can't do anything except reboot. I'm pretty sure it's software related as I have recently formatted and had no problems until I have started reinstalling all my backed up programs. I have tried a step by step confirmation at bootup and if i don't load the 'dblbuff.dll' file it seems to boot fine. I'm not sure on this, but does anyone have any info on this file??

Any other suggestions on common causes for a blue screen at bootup??

Thanks for your time.

[OuTpaTienT]

If it seems that particular file is causing the problems you could try this to "turn it off".

In the root of your C:\ drive is a file called MSDOS.SYS. Use a text editor (notepad.exe) to edit it and find the line that says:
DoubleBuffer=1
and change the "1" to a "0". If the line is not there, then just add it yourself. See if it affects your bluescreens.

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note: you'll probably need to change the attributes on that file before you'll be allowed to save any changes. Currently it should be hidden and read only, turn those attributes off.

[Phat]

It's not the dblbuff.dll file. I tried turning it off in the msdos.sys file as shown above and it still blue screened me.