Hi, thanks for replying,

  Unfortunately that was one of the first things I checked though.  His
autoexec only has a path statement, and his config.sys is empty.


Marc



> Can you check out if there is any dos driver in your autoexec.bat file?
You can open
> it with Notepad. If you are running win98, the easiest way is to run
"msconfig" from
> start button-->run
>
> This problem usually caused by 16bit driver.
>
> Jun Qian
>
> Marshall Freedland wrote:
>
> > "Marc E. Mosher" wrote:
> >
> > >   What happens is the CD-ROM stops working and when we check the
SYSTEM applet
> > > in the control panel it says the system has been put into DOS
> > > COMPATIBILITY MODE.
> >
> > I had/have a similar problem and people tell me that it's because I have
4
> > devices: 3 HDs and a CD.  I daisy-chained my Primary to the CD (they
'live' next
> > to each other and it seemed easiest to go that way) and I had the other
2 Maxtor
> > HDs daisy-chained connecting to the mb.  This worked well for a while
but...  I
> > am in DOS Compatibility Mode now.
>
>          The PCBUILD web site always needs good submissions.  If
>           you would like to contribute to the website, send any
>                hardware tech tips or hardware reviews to:
>                            [log in to unmask]
>

         The PCBUILD web site always needs good submissions.  If
          you would like to contribute to the website, send any
               hardware tech tips or hardware reviews to:
                           [log in to unmask]