That's correct for re-starting in MS-DOS mode - you are
getting the famous DOS prompt. You can type commands at
the prompt, such as DIR, or EXIT.

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nope--told you--wait 'til the morrow--same problem, just
now i'm getting the 'there is a problem with the
display...' message. i checked the value--same with
default as with desired. i also tried to start in ms-dos
[just for the hell of it] and lo and behold, it would
not. just got the last screen i get right before my
desktop--it said 'c:\windows' at the bottom with the
cursor right there after the '', but i didn't know what
to do. so i hit 'enter' and it just copied
the 'c:\windows' again every time i hit 'enter'. am i
just a computard or is that not supposed to happen??
shouldn't it go into ms-dos just by going 'startshut
downrestart in ms-dos'?? i am now totally at sea...
[but i didn't have to reinstall the video adapter driver
this time--just reset the res etc. and restarted and
voila! there was my desired res/colors...]

thanks for any assistance--this is really getting weird!!
regards--
allyson
-----Original Message-----
Don't complain - if fixing it is as simple as asking the
question, I'd go
with that!
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"allyson" wrote in
message
...

damn, jeff--it seems every time i come to you guys
with
a
problem, the symptoms disappear magically 'til the
morrow!!! i just rebooted 6 times and each time it
came
back to desired settings. i thought perhaps since the
first two times i shut down with 'restart' that maybe
that
was the reason it didn't go back to 640x480/16 color,
so i
shut down completely for the next tries--perhaps i
didn't
leave the pc idle long enough or something [who knows
at
this point?? lol]. so, i will either shut down and
leave
it idle for quite a while and reboot tonight or
tomorrow
and see what happens--then i'll try your last resort.
btw-
-i checked in current mode and the value for
display.drv
was pnpdrvr.drv--not that i presume that helps any.
and
also, for the record, this is a compaq pentium 3
running
win98se and the display adapter driver is a trident
blade3d/mvp4[63]. the two drivers are dated 11-14-1999
and 1-19-2000, respectively [if any of that makes a
diff...]

thanks and i'll let you know what happens!!!
allyson

-----Original Message-----
There is one other possibility I can think of. It might
be a complete red
herring, but it's worth a look. When the default
display
is installed, do
Start / Run / Sysedit and look in System.INI. Find the
section [boot] and
the entry display.drv. What is the value for this
entry?

Then reinstall the drivers and check again. Does the
entry change? Shutdown
and boot to DOS. Do
EDIT C:\Windows\System.INI
and look at the entry again. What is it now?
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"allyson" wrote
in
message
. ..
hi, ron, jeff et al. i've tried all your suggestions

video adapter driver problems and nothing has worked.
to
refresh your memories, in order to attain my desired
800x600 and 16-bit, i have to reinstall the video
adapter
driver at each reboot. i've tried removing
everything
and
reinstalling, removing everything and starting in
safe
mode,letting the pc install the default driver and
then
installing the newest driver--that hasn't worked
[neither
has using the un-updated driver]. no matter what i
do,
upon bootup, i have 640x480 and 16 color, then need
to
reinstall the driver and restart to get the desired
result. the only difference is that now i don't get
the
message stating that there is a problem--i just get
the 'undesired' resolution/colors and have to go
through
the reinstall/reboot. any ideas [hope my
description
is
of assistance to your advice...]???

thanks,
allyson


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