Jean,

I have placed a semicolon(;) before the lines to remove if you wish to keep the
autoexec.bat and config.sys. They are not required for Win9x to start, but some
programs(Corel Barista is one I know of) wants to use AUTOEXEC.BAT to set its
classpaths.

If you change the files as below, the machine should then be able to boot into
windows.

Jamie Furtner

Config.SYS

; ** DOS=SINGLE
DOS=HIGH,UMB
Device=c:\windows\himem.sys
Device=c:\windows\cwdinit.exe /A

Autoexec.BAT

Set TMP=c:\windows\temp
Set TEMP=c:\windows\temp
Set Prompt=$p$g
Set WINBOOTDIR=c:\windows
Set Classpath=.;C:\Corel\Office7\Shared\Barista;C:\Corel\Office7\Shared\Truedoc
Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=C:\Corel\Office7\Shared\Truedoc\Bin
Path
C:\windows;C:\windows;c:\windows\command;c:\windows;c:\windows\command;c:\Co
rel\Office7\Shared\Truedoc\Bin
Set Blaster=A220 I5 D1 T4
C:\Windows\Command\DOSKEY
; ** REM
; ** REM The following lines have been created by Windows. DO NOT MODIFY THEM.
; ** REM
; ** C:
; ** CD C:\DOSBoot\Gameshow\TK5\Games\Tetris
; ** CALL C:\DOSBoot\Gameshow\TK5\Games\Tetris\TET.exe
; ** C:\windows\win.com /W




At 01:19 PM 99-04-27 , you wrote:
>After some prompts for additional info, here goes:
>
>The screen is black (DOS type) and dark, then suddenly the
>following
>appears:
>
>CrystalWare Audio Init . . . . .
>
>   * Plug and Play BIOS Detected
>
>   * SBPro: I/O = 220,   IRQ = 5,   DMA = 1
>
>DOSKey Installed
>
>Press any key to continue.
>
>And when a key is pressed, the entire thing restarts as if it was
>just
>booting up and it ends up back at the above.
>
>The following are provided:
>
>Config.SYS
>
>DOS=SINGLE
>DOS=HIGH,UMB
>Device=c:\windows\himem.sys
>Device=c:\windows\cwdinit.exe /A
>
>
>Autoexec.BAT
>
>Set TMP=c:\windows\temp
>Set TEMP=c:\windows\temp
>Set Prompt=$p$g
>Set WINBOOTDIR=c:\windows
>Set
>Classpath=.;C:\Corel\Office7\Shared\Barista;C:\Corel\Office7\Shar
>ed\Truedoc
>Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=C:\Corel\Office7\Shared\Truedoc\Bin
>Set
>Path=C:\windows;C:\windows;c:\windows\command;c:\windows;c:\windo
>ws\command;
>c:\Corel\Office7\Shared\Truedoc\Bin
>Set Blaster=A220 I5 D1 T4
>C:\Windows\Command\DOSKEY
>REM
>REM The following lines have been created by Windows. DO NOT
>MODIFY
>THEM.
>REM
>C:
>CD C:\DOSBoot\Gameshow\TK5\Games\Tetris
>CALL C:\DOSBoot\Gameshow\TK5\Games\Tetris\TET.exe
>C:\windows\win.com /W
>
>
>I noticed in the above that the path statement has several
>'C:\windows'
>labels.  I believe I can remove the duplicates, right?
>
>When I REM'd the Change Directory and CALL C: lines towards the
>end of
>the autoexec.BAT file, that is when the system just recycles.
>
>But at least do one thing.  Correct me if I am wrong, but if the
>system
>is WIN98, then there really isn't any need for the config.sys and
>autoexec.bat files unless someone truly wants to run DOS games in
>DOS
>mode, right?  (My son's new laptop does not have anything in his
>Config.sys and Autoexec.BAT files.  He does have an Autoexec.BAR
>file,
>but text within the file indicates it is for making a DOS BOOT
>DISK!
>And since it is a .BAR extension, it won't execute at startup,
>right?)
>So do I really need these two files (as constructed) or are they
>designed just for DOS games?
>--
>Jean Bourvic :>))
>
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