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Name: KittB
Date: January 2, 2004 at 20:54:43 Pacific
OS: Windows 3.1
CPU/Ram: 486
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I recently aquired an old IBM Thinkpad 340 and was told that the screen was colour & to have a fiddle around with the settings. Stupid me played around with the display settings and now my windows is all lines & dots. I cannot see any icons or menus HELP! Also it has been 10 years since I used 3.1 can you tell me how I can get into DOS at start up? If you can help, please contact me ASAP as I'm getting very cranky! LOL



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Name: jboy
Date: January 2, 2004 at 21:24:05 Pacific
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DOS boots before Windows loads - your autoexec.bat likely launches Win31.

Assuming you're running M$-DOS 6 or higher you should be able to gain control by pressing F5 for a clean boot or F8 for line by line confirmation.

Sometimes CTRL-C will interrupt the process - or you could boot from a boot disk.

Once in DOS enter:

cd\windows

setup

and that should let you reset your video configuration - if in doubt choose basic VGA 16 colors.


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Name: KittB
Date: January 2, 2004 at 23:53:22 Pacific
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Thanks JBoy, did as u said but now it wants the 3.1 start up disk, to save the changed settings. any idea where I can find a genuine free download? Done some searching but being led up garden path.


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Name: KittB
Date: January 2, 2004 at 23:56:58 Pacific
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JBoy
PS - I forgot to tell you I have the start up files on my desktop, can u tell tell me how to loacate the file from dos?? Appreciate your patience :)


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Response Number 4
Name: jboy
Date: January 3, 2004 at 00:20:22 Pacific
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Do you mean you have copies of your Windows installation files on your hard drive?

You can probably point the setup program to their location or else copy to a floppy disk.

Win3xx installation files are in a compressed format, Windows looks for files on a particular disk and expands them - usually more than one file, often more than one disk.

If that doesn't work, check your email for a possible solution.


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Response Number 5
Name: jboy
Date: January 3, 2004 at 02:27:16 Pacific
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oh, I'd forgotten:

cd\windows\desktop

will get you there under DOS, but I'm not so sure that's going to be helpful.

post back with more specific info on what you're trying to do


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Date: January 4, 2004 at 12:04:39 Pacific
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Name: Bob (by BigBob)
Date: January 4, 2004 at 12:08:04 Pacific
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