I AM NOT ONE OF YOU COMPUTER WIZARDS. BUT, I NEED SOME HELP. I REALLY COUNT ON MY OLD COMPUTER FOR MY SMALL BUSINESS AND I HAVE REALLY FOULED UP. SINCE I HAVE GOTTEN A LITTLE BOLD WITH MY HOME COMPUTER I WAS MESSING AROUND WITH MY OLD COMPUTER AT MY SHOP AND TRIED TO CHANGE THE VIDEO SETTINGS TO MATCH THE ONES ON THE NEW SYSTEM (WIN. 98) AT HOME. WELL THE RESULTS ARE, I CAN'T SEE THE SCREEN. THE SYSTEM BOOTS JUST FINE, BUT AFTER IT GOES THROUGH BOOT UP, I CAN'T SEE THE SCREEN. WHAT CAN I DO? PLEASE HELP! THIS SYSTEM HAS ALL OF MY BUSINESS INFO. ON IT. THANKS, CHARLES DUECKER

1.- boot your pc to the dos prompt eg c:> use a boot disk if necessary from bootdisk.com, look for ms-dos 6.22 2.- after booting to dos type the command cd\windows\setup.exe 3.- a blue screen shows with your selections for computer type, video display type, networking type 4.- change your video selection to what you had before you did the changes. If you cannot remember, set it to vga. 5.- save the settings and attempt to boot windows normally. 6.- post results of what you got afterwards

made a mistake on step 2 the command line is: cd\windows (push enter then) setup.exe (push enter)

To: Hank Thank you so very much. Your "fix" worked great! It can really be frustrating to rely so much on computers to do my work, yet not be able to fix them, especially when it was my own fault. Again, thank you very much. I hope you visit this site often...with my luck, i'm sure I'll be back! Charles

yes necessary to know strange, if you type setup at c:\ you get windows setup ( installation) but if you do as the gentleman suggests you get the same info as clicking on the setup icon but in dos where you can see the screen. if you have a large enough hard drive copy all the windows disks to a directory NOT names windows . amd use that dir for example c:\win31 ( copy all floppies here) and after the first time it asks for the cd or a certain floppy ( which is " certain" tho have errors!!) you will save a lot of time and effort. it takes less than 12 megs of disk space.