hello friends


well my friend of late is expreincing a weird type of problem,, his box is 866 MHz celeron,64MB RAM ,8 GB HDD,, running win 98 along with RH linux 6.2 using lilo boot loader.... when he starts his system then after the first page tht gets loaded up ( the one which gives the BIOS version info and the disks and CDROM detection status) the screen gets black and again system gets started ,,and again after the first screen it agains restarts and tht first screen blink several times before preparing itself for a restart (lol...) and then usually after 5 to 10 minutes ( sometimes system gets started ina instant and sometimes it may takes upto half an hour to get to the lilo prompt) lilo boot prompt comes and then the sys starts,,,,
any suggestions and opinions r highly welcomed
thanx in advance