Paul;
Here is a very good Microsoft Knowledge Base article on MS-DOS Compatibility
Mode Problems
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q151/9/11.asp

Usually this just means your hard drive controllers are wrong or not
installed correctly.
Or you may have real mode cdrom drivers loading in autoexec.bat or
config.sys.
I would boot in safe mode and delete all the hard drive controllers then let
windows plug and play
them again, this usually sorts out the problem.
The article also tells you how to search the registry for a "noide" entry
and delete it.
I have done this as well.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul David Shea" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:18 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] MS-DOS Compatibilty Mode ??


> Problem, I'm running Win98se on a k6-2 450. and it alway's say's under
system performance that my system is not running optimaly and that it is
running under MSDOS Compatibility mode. it also states that the Virtual
Memory is running under dos copatibility as well. How can i change this and
what is causing it??? any help would be great.

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