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Mart,
Something's clearly not "right" and I feel I/we are missing something obvious but as to what that is I don't honestly know. This whole Start Menu thing though does seem very odd to me. I know I should have read the previous thread but ... -- Mike Mart wrote: Hi Mike, hM claims to have already run scandisk (hopefully in DOS with a surface scan too g) and checked his RAM, as I'd suggested in the previous thread :- I've tried ... scandisk /all (comes up clean) Hi Mart, .... I did test my memory chips using Simmtester's DocMemory and everything checked out fine. and so I guess that brings us back to the Safe Mode boot option menu - or this other 'startup menu' screen hM is seeing. |
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Yes, I did run scandisk in DOS with a surface scan many times. And I did test
RAM using Simmtester's DocMemory for a couple of hours and it came up clean/passed. On re-boot after a freeze the screen that comes up has 5 options 1. Normal 2. Logged 3. Safe mode 4. Step-by-step-configuration 5. Safe mode command prompt only. When I try Safe mode it also freezes. "Mike M" wrote: Mart, Something's clearly not "right" and I feel I/we are missing something obvious but as to what that is I don't honestly know. This whole Start Menu thing though does seem very odd to me. I know I should have read the previous thread but ... -- Mike Mart wrote: Hi Mike, hM claims to have already run scandisk (hopefully in DOS with a surface scan too g) and checked his RAM, as I'd suggested in the previous thread :- I've tried ... scandisk /all (comes up clean) Hi Mart, .... I did test my memory chips using Simmtester's DocMemory and everything checked out fine. and so I guess that brings us back to the Safe Mode boot option menu - or this other 'startup menu' screen hM is seeing. |
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You don't appear to be running Win Me. Win Me has no option "5. Safe mode
command prompt only." -- Mike Maltby helpMe wrote: Yes, I did run scandisk in DOS with a surface scan many times. And I did test RAM using Simmtester's DocMemory for a couple of hours and it came up clean/passed. On re-boot after a freeze the screen that comes up has 5 options 1. Normal 2. Logged 3. Safe mode 4. Step-by-step-configuration 5. Safe mode command prompt only. When I try Safe mode it also freezes. |
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Mike, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the "Safe mode command prompt only"
applicable to Win 95 and Win98xx? I thought that option went, with the introduction of 'Virtual Mode' DOS in WinMe. However, it might explain one two anomalies which left me wondering at some of hM's earlier tests g hM, I suppose you could iteratively try option 4 and throw out individual drivers - one at a time - to try to isolate the offender. Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... You don't appear to be running Win Me. Win Me has no option "5. Safe mode command prompt only." -- Mike Maltby helpMe wrote: Yes, I did run scandisk in DOS with a surface scan many times. And I did test RAM using Simmtester's DocMemory for a couple of hours and it came up clean/passed. On re-boot after a freeze the screen that comes up has 5 options 1. Normal 2. Logged 3. Safe mode 4. Step-by-step-configuration 5. Safe mode command prompt only. When I try Safe mode it also freezes. |
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Mike, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the "Safe mode command
prompt only" applicable to Win 95 and Win98xx? Mart, Indeed that is correct. As you know Win Me has no such capability. -- Mike Mart wrote: Mike, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the "Safe mode command prompt only" applicable to Win 95 and Win98xx? I thought that option went, with the introduction of 'Virtual Mode' DOS in WinMe. However, it might explain one two anomalies which left me wondering at some of hM's earlier tests g hM, I suppose you could iteratively try option 4 and throw out individual drivers - one at a time - to try to isolate the offender. |
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Hi Mike,
The screen that comes up on reboot is titled "Microsoft Windows Millennium Startup Menu" There are actually 6 options. Same 4 as in previous note and 5. Command prompt only 6. Safe mode command prompt only. Option 5 (Command prompt only) is highlighted. "Mike M" wrote: You don't appear to be running Win Me. Win Me has no option "5. Safe mode command prompt only." -- Mike Maltby helpMe wrote: Yes, I did run scandisk in DOS with a surface scan many times. And I did test RAM using Simmtester's DocMemory for a couple of hours and it came up clean/passed. On re-boot after a freeze the screen that comes up has 5 options 1. Normal 2. Logged 3. Safe mode 4. Step-by-step-configuration 5. Safe mode command prompt only. When I try Safe mode it also freezes. |
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Once I get the Startup Menu I go into Command prompt only. I can successfully
do a scandisk /all (with some files being fixed). When I try to do a scanreg /fix I get the following Registery Repair Results message, "Windows found an error in your system files and was unable to fix the problwem. Try deleting some files to free up disk space on your Windows drive. If that doesn't work then you will need to install Windows to a new directory." "helpMe" wrote: Hi Mike, The screen that comes up on reboot is titled "Microsoft Windows Millennium Startup Menu" There are actually 6 options. Same 4 as in previous note and 5. Command prompt only 6. Safe mode command prompt only. Option 5 (Command prompt only) is highlighted. "Mike M" wrote: You don't appear to be running Win Me. Win Me has no option "5. Safe mode command prompt only." -- Mike Maltby helpMe wrote: Yes, I did run scandisk in DOS with a surface scan many times. And I did test RAM using Simmtester's DocMemory for a couple of hours and it came up clean/passed. On re-boot after a freeze the screen that comes up has 5 options 1. Normal 2. Logged 3. Safe mode 4. Step-by-step-configuration 5. Safe mode command prompt only. When I try Safe mode it also freezes. |
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One other thing, when I get the Microsoft Windows Millennium Startup Menu
with the 6 options, the mesage at the botom after all the options are listed is "Warning: Windows has detected a registry/configuration error. Use scanreg to correct this error." That's why I tried scandisk followed by scanreg. "helpMe" wrote: Hi Mike, The screen that comes up on reboot is titled "Microsoft Windows Millennium Startup Menu" There are actually 6 options. Same 4 as in previous note and 5. Command prompt only 6. Safe mode command prompt only. Option 5 (Command prompt only) is highlighted. "Mike M" wrote: You don't appear to be running Win Me. Win Me has no option "5. Safe mode command prompt only." -- Mike Maltby helpMe wrote: Yes, I did run scandisk in DOS with a surface scan many times. And I did test RAM using Simmtester's DocMemory for a couple of hours and it came up clean/passed. On re-boot after a freeze the screen that comes up has 5 options 1. Normal 2. Logged 3. Safe mode 4. Step-by-step-configuration 5. Safe mode command prompt only. When I try Safe mode it also freezes. |
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I hate to repeat myself but that is not a Win Me startup screen which has
just four, yes FOUR options. You are clearly not running or installing a copy of Microsoft Win Me. Win Me does not support command mode. All I can suggest is that you are attempting to install a hacked copy that attempts to restore real mode DOS in which case you would be better served by posting your queries to a newsgroup that supports such a hacked version (if one exists). If you are running Win Me it is impossible to go to a command prompt in the way that you say you are doing other than if you boot from a Win Me boot floppy. The removal of real mode DOS was one of the "features" of Win Me. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Windows helpMe wrote: Hi Mike, The screen that comes up on reboot is titled "Microsoft Windows Millennium Startup Menu" There are actually 6 options. Same 4 as in previous note and 5. Command prompt only 6. Safe mode command prompt only. Option 5 (Command prompt only) is highlighted. |
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helpMe wrote:
One other thing, when I get the Microsoft Windows Millennium Startup Menu with the 6 options, the mesage at the botom after all the options are listed is "Warning: Windows has detected a registry/configuration error. Use scanreg to correct this error." That's why I tried scandisk followed by scanreg. Sadly I can no longer provide assistance since you appear to be running a hacked version of Win Me. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Windows |
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