Summary: Hey all, I'm considering putting together a DOS machine on an older laptop for all of my games from yesteryear. I could use some help coming up with ...
Summary: If your disk is already formatted, and you are using, for instance, DOS 6.22... With the computer off, put disk 1 in the floppy drive. When the comput...
Summary: I'm trying to run X-Wing. It won't run if under Windows 98 at all. I can get it to run in DOS off a boot disk (EMS etc...) but with no sound. I can ru...
Summary: Sorry, Bob. But the prognosis ain't good. I don't think there is an easy way round this one. I had an identical problem with an old toshiba. The only...
Summary: I am trying to recover data from a Toshiba Laptop running XP Pro. Every boot encounters a BSOD Bad Pool Caller Stop message. There is absolutely no ...
Summary: Config.sys is a text file - you can open & alter it with DOS Edit. Post your config.sys here so it can be examined. Win98 doesn't really require conf...
Summary: My config.sys loads up and looks for protocol.ini becuase the protman.dos driver gets loaded first in config.sys. BUT I have my autoexec.bat setup in...
Summary: No, not with normal methods. The messages are put out by the various device drivers using low leave DOS functions or in some cases BIOS commands. Ther...
Summary: ok tnx guys for help now it detects me the cd rom:p but the problem is now that the cd rom says: u must entry a device in your config.sys like device=...
Summary: No. They are displayed by the programs and device drivers themselves. DOS itself does not display anything. Now if you were an experienced DOS/Assembl...
Summary: I'm busy with an olkskoll MS-DOS PC. in the autoexec.bat you can put like: @ECHO OFF CTTY NUL bla bla bla CTTY CON this way, during the boot of the au...
Summary: My question came from this statement: The most common way to add device drivers in DOS is first to copy the device driver onto the C: drive from the f...
Summary: First, you don't need those files to boot. Minimum for the files would be: Config.sys DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS (if you run windows or a ramdrive)...
Summary: That's not too surprising - there are irregularities in the setup posted above (sorry dtech) Ok - DOS is quite particular - things have to be 'just so...
Summary: During boot, MS-DOS looks for config.sys, which, with the SHELL command, can change the command processor. Therefore, you could say that config.sys l...
Summary: I recently installed the DOS mode patch for Windows ME. I was unhappy with it so tried to remove it, but almost ended up wrecking my PC due to having ...
Summary: Hi, it seems I have a very common problem here, but still don't find the solution... I have reformated my hard drive, installed the drivers for the c...
Summary: OK, I would like to load a device driver into memory, after the config.sys has exectued. I'm running windows 98, but is there a program for dos that ...
Summary: If you're running real DOS (6.22 or below...till whenever they didn't have help.com), try typing "help [Enter]" at the command prompt. It sounds like...
Summary: Any DOS guru out there please help. A summary of my dilemma, I've got the Acer C110 notebook which does not have a floppy or CD drive, I want to resto...
Summary: Someone please help me. I got this old compaq presario 920 with 400mb harddrive. i am trying to edit my config.sys file but i can't. when i type in th...
Summary: For the floppy, I would try to get into CMOS setup and see if it's listed. Some setup programs let you change the boot sequence; see if that got alte...
Summary: In need of help-I need a copy of config.sys, and autoexec.bat for doss 6.22 with d:\--already set up.I plan to install win3.1 but can't get cd to work...
Summary: Memory management under Windows 9X is not done via the config.sys file.This is only for dos, any dos supporting EMM386.EXE from Microsoft in this case...
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