During any restart as in SW installing the screen goes blank, a horizontal cursor appears for about five flashes and then, while you can hear the normal HD activity, the screen remains blank even apparently once Win95 has started.

System

166 Intel Pentium
S3 Verge/DX/GX/ PCI video card
Yamaha OPL SAX3 sound card

Fresh 95 install - no programs loaded
Autoexec.bat & config.sys have no entries
Video minimun setting allowed = 256 colors 640 X 480 - now at 256 colors 800 X 600

You can side step the problem by powering off at the time the flashing cursor appears and any power off restart has normal screen during bootup in DOS & Windows.

I've never seen nor heard of this one - any thoughts out there in Helpland?