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Old September 11th 05, 09:54 PM
Rose
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Default 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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Old September 11th 05, 10:51 PM
Gary S. Terhune
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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?


  #3  
Old September 11th 05, 11:04 PM
Brian A.
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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.

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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?


  #4  
Old September 12th 05, 12:08 AM
Rose
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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?



  #5  
Old September 12th 05, 12:14 AM
Rose
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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?



  #6  
Old September 12th 05, 12:23 AM
Gary S. Terhune
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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?




  #7  
Old September 13th 05, 05:44 PM
Rose
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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?




  #8  
Old September 13th 05, 06:04 PM
Gary S. Terhune
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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?





  #9  
Old September 14th 05, 08:09 AM
Rose
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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?






  #10  
Old September 14th 05, 04:54 PM
Gary S. Terhune
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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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