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Display, Settings is blank
I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the
problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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What do you mean by "diagnostic startup"? Did you use "Step-by-Step" from the
Startup Menu. or did you use settings in MSCONFIG (System Configuration Utility), or what? Reason I ask, is I'd like to know what's in your CONFIG.SYS, but it may have been renamed to CONFIG.TSH or something else. Suggest you look for any C:\CONFIG.xxx where xxx is any extension. Use Notepad to open them and Copy/Paste the contents of each here. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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Do you really mean Selective Startup in msconfig and you uncheck config.sys?
Diagnostic Startup in msconfig interactively loads device drivers and software. If you had an issue with startup and unchecking config.sys appears to solve the issue, please post the contents of the config.sys and autoexec.bat in a response in this thread. -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Rose" wrote in message ... I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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Yes, I mean Selective Startup and answering "No" to the config.sys file. I
can't find the config.sys file. There is a couple of config files with blank extensions, one with nothing in it and the other that says MIDI Instrument Definition. One is config.pss that is empty. The autoexec.bat file is empty and there is an autoexec.pss file that is empty. "Brian A." wrote: Do you really mean Selective Startup in msconfig and you uncheck config.sys? Diagnostic Startup in msconfig interactively loads device drivers and software. If you had an issue with startup and unchecking config.sys appears to solve the issue, please post the contents of the config.sys and autoexec.bat in a response in this thread. -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "Rose" wrote in message ... I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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Yes I did Step-by-Step from the startup menu. There is a config.pss file
that is empty and a couple of config files with no extension. One is blank and the other has "MIDI Instrument Definition" written in it. There is a couple of text config files, one with instructions the other is huge having to do with a game I think. If you want me to use Dos to find the config.sys file, hmmmm I don't remember my Dos commands. I used the "Find" option in windows. Thank you so much. Is there anything else I need to do that you can think of? "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: What do you mean by "diagnostic startup"? Did you use "Step-by-Step" from the Startup Menu. or did you use settings in MSCONFIG (System Configuration Utility), or what? Reason I ask, is I'd like to know what's in your CONFIG.SYS, but it may have been renamed to CONFIG.TSH or something else. Suggest you look for any C:\CONFIG.xxx where xxx is any extension. Use Notepad to open them and Copy/Paste the contents of each here. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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Just to make sure, run MSCONFIG from the Start\Run box. Is there a Config.sys
tab, and if so, is there anything in it? If you do a Normal restart now, does the problem return? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... Yes I did Step-by-Step from the startup menu. There is a config.pss file that is empty and a couple of config files with no extension. One is blank and the other has "MIDI Instrument Definition" written in it. There is a couple of text config files, one with instructions the other is huge having to do with a game I think. If you want me to use Dos to find the config.sys file, hmmmm I don't remember my Dos commands. I used the "Find" option in windows. Thank you so much. Is there anything else I need to do that you can think of? "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: What do you mean by "diagnostic startup"? Did you use "Step-by-Step" from the Startup Menu. or did you use settings in MSCONFIG (System Configuration Utility), or what? Reason I ask, is I'd like to know what's in your CONFIG.SYS, but it may have been renamed to CONFIG.TSH or something else. Suggest you look for any C:\CONFIG.xxx where xxx is any extension. Use Notepad to open them and Copy/Paste the contents of each here. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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Yes Mrs. Terhune, there is a config.sys tab. Nothing in it though.
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote: Just to make sure, run MSCONFIG from the Start\Run box. Is there a Config.sys tab, and if so, is there anything in it? If you do a Normal restart now, does the problem return? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... Yes I did Step-by-Step from the startup menu. There is a config.pss file that is empty and a couple of config files with no extension. One is blank and the other has "MIDI Instrument Definition" written in it. There is a couple of text config files, one with instructions the other is huge having to do with a game I think. If you want me to use Dos to find the config.sys file, hmmmm I don't remember my Dos commands. I used the "Find" option in windows. Thank you so much. Is there anything else I need to do that you can think of? "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: What do you mean by "diagnostic startup"? Did you use "Step-by-Step" from the Startup Menu. or did you use settings in MSCONFIG (System Configuration Utility), or what? Reason I ask, is I'd like to know what's in your CONFIG.SYS, but it may have been renamed to CONFIG.TSH or something else. Suggest you look for any C:\CONFIG.xxx where xxx is any extension. Use Notepad to open them and Copy/Paste the contents of each here. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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OK, Rose. What I've been trying to get to is that the Config.sys issue may be a
red herring--may have nothing at all to do with your problem. Again, if you perform a Normal Startup, with everything enabled in MSCONFIG, does the system start up successfully? Does Display Settings perform properly? Does it shut down properly? Test several times. I think we're chasing phantoms, here. I'd like to return to ground zero and follow your steps more closely. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... Yes Mrs. Terhune, there is a config.sys tab. Nothing in it though. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: Just to make sure, run MSCONFIG from the Start\Run box. Is there a Config.sys tab, and if so, is there anything in it? If you do a Normal restart now, does the problem return? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... Yes I did Step-by-Step from the startup menu. There is a config.pss file that is empty and a couple of config files with no extension. One is blank and the other has "MIDI Instrument Definition" written in it. There is a couple of text config files, one with instructions the other is huge having to do with a game I think. If you want me to use Dos to find the config.sys file, hmmmm I don't remember my Dos commands. I used the "Find" option in windows. Thank you so much. Is there anything else I need to do that you can think of? "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: What do you mean by "diagnostic startup"? Did you use "Step-by-Step" from the Startup Menu. or did you use settings in MSCONFIG (System Configuration Utility), or what? Reason I ask, is I'd like to know what's in your CONFIG.SYS, but it may have been renamed to CONFIG.TSH or something else. Suggest you look for any C:\CONFIG.xxx where xxx is any extension. Use Notepad to open them and Copy/Paste the contents of each here. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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Dear Mr. Terhune,
If I perform a normal startup the system starts successfully and shuts down properly. The display settings do not perform properly in that when you click on "Display", "Settings" it goes blank and doesn't allow any settings to be set. You have to hit control-alt-del to restart windows from the beginning because it gets hung up there. I can't run any programs because the color setting is too low from when it was in safemode before this normal startup. It's a good fast running 2.8 ghz computer, just a bad dicision to save money to put win98 on it and it's not that old. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: OK, Rose. What I've been trying to get to is that the Config.sys issue may be a red herring--may have nothing at all to do with your problem. Again, if you perform a Normal Startup, with everything enabled in MSCONFIG, does the system start up successfully? Does Display Settings perform properly? Does it shut down properly? Test several times. I think we're chasing phantoms, here. I'd like to return to ground zero and follow your steps more closely. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... Yes Mrs. Terhune, there is a config.sys tab. Nothing in it though. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: Just to make sure, run MSCONFIG from the Start\Run box. Is there a Config.sys tab, and if so, is there anything in it? If you do a Normal restart now, does the problem return? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... Yes I did Step-by-Step from the startup menu. There is a config.pss file that is empty and a couple of config files with no extension. One is blank and the other has "MIDI Instrument Definition" written in it. There is a couple of text config files, one with instructions the other is huge having to do with a game I think. If you want me to use Dos to find the config.sys file, hmmmm I don't remember my Dos commands. I used the "Find" option in windows. Thank you so much. Is there anything else I need to do that you can think of? "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: What do you mean by "diagnostic startup"? Did you use "Step-by-Step" from the Startup Menu. or did you use settings in MSCONFIG (System Configuration Utility), or what? Reason I ask, is I'd like to know what's in your CONFIG.SYS, but it may have been renamed to CONFIG.TSH or something else. Suggest you look for any C:\CONFIG.xxx where xxx is any extension. Use Notepad to open them and Copy/Paste the contents of each here. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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OK. Well, what you almost certainly need to do is to reinstall Display Adapter
(Video Adapter) drivers. Question is, how to do that? You say you can't run any programs. Then I take it that you are communicating with us using another machine? You can't even, for instance, right-click on My Computer, then click on Properties, then on the Device Manager tab? Can you access the devices that way? Also, do you know what make/model your video adapter is? Is it "onboard", or is it a plug-in card? I'd normally suggest Everest Home Edition, from www.lavalys.com, to properly detect and identify your hardware, but if you won't be able to effectively run it on that machine, that would be a problem if you truly can't run anything on the machine as it is. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... Dear Mr. Terhune, If I perform a normal startup the system starts successfully and shuts down properly. The display settings do not perform properly in that when you click on "Display", "Settings" it goes blank and doesn't allow any settings to be set. You have to hit control-alt-del to restart windows from the beginning because it gets hung up there. I can't run any programs because the color setting is too low from when it was in safemode before this normal startup. It's a good fast running 2.8 ghz computer, just a bad dicision to save money to put win98 on it and it's not that old. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: OK, Rose. What I've been trying to get to is that the Config.sys issue may be a red herring--may have nothing at all to do with your problem. Again, if you perform a Normal Startup, with everything enabled in MSCONFIG, does the system start up successfully? Does Display Settings perform properly? Does it shut down properly? Test several times. I think we're chasing phantoms, here. I'd like to return to ground zero and follow your steps more closely. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... Yes Mrs. Terhune, there is a config.sys tab. Nothing in it though. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: Just to make sure, run MSCONFIG from the Start\Run box. Is there a Config.sys tab, and if so, is there anything in it? If you do a Normal restart now, does the problem return? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... Yes I did Step-by-Step from the startup menu. There is a config.pss file that is empty and a couple of config files with no extension. One is blank and the other has "MIDI Instrument Definition" written in it. There is a couple of text config files, one with instructions the other is huge having to do with a game I think. If you want me to use Dos to find the config.sys file, hmmmm I don't remember my Dos commands. I used the "Find" option in windows. Thank you so much. Is there anything else I need to do that you can think of? "Gary S. Terhune" wrote: What do you mean by "diagnostic startup"? Did you use "Step-by-Step" from the Startup Menu. or did you use settings in MSCONFIG (System Configuration Utility), or what? Reason I ask, is I'd like to know what's in your CONFIG.SYS, but it may have been renamed to CONFIG.TSH or something else. Suggest you look for any C:\CONFIG.xxx where xxx is any extension. Use Notepad to open them and Copy/Paste the contents of each here. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User "Rose" wrote in message ... I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that fixed the problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control panel, Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are there any answers to this mystery? |
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