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.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Rose" wrote in message
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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?

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Rose" wrote in message
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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.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Rose" wrote in message
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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?