On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 07:27, James R. McKenzie wrote: > Have yoy tried doing an over-istall of Win98se. The Install routine > shouldn't mess with your X stuff and might fix the boot-hang-thing. I don't > know anything about laptops (don't have one) but in my desktop stuff that > usually fixed a host of problems. Anything from Outlook Express not working > or even loading to the browser not doing a damn thing after it loaded. It > can also fix alot of startup problems. > > T H A N K Y O U > James R. McKenzie What could be done to FIND what is causing Win98SE's hang is to do this: After POST, hit the SHIFT-F5 and hold it. this will take you directly to the command prompt. Then do ATTRIB -R -S -A -H MSDOS.SYS and then EDIT MSDOS.SYS - find the part that starts GUI=1 and change it to GUI=0 - this will do a normal startup and process the CONFIG.SYS and the AUTOEXEC.BAT but will drop you directly to MS-DOS. That is part one. Part two is this: Edit the CONFIG.SYS file to be EXACTLY like this: CONFIG.SYS:
switches=/e:288 device=c:\windows\himem.sys /testmem:off device=c:\windows\emm386.exe noems notr d=64 dos=umb buffers=25,0 files=100 shell=c:\windows\command.com c:\windows /p /e:2048 dos=high THEN, edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT to be: @echo off set path=c:\windows;c:\windows\command set temp=c:\windows\temp set tmp=c:\windows\temp set dircmd=/o/l/a THEN Reboot. This will give you a CLEAN environment in which to start troubleshooting. At this point, if you type WIN at the command line and Windows starts nicely, you've resolved the issue and you can change the GUI=0 back to GUI=1 in the MSDOS.SYS. ...and I know that y'all are going to beat me up for giving out Windoze advice in a Mandrake Linux group, but hec, help is help by any label, ain't it? (g) Cheers! -- Fri Nov 8 09:20:00 EST 2002 -------------------------------- | __ __ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;"""/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | -------------------------------- Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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