At 3/2/01 08:25 PM, CAL wrote: >I did as you said and installed a IDE card to run my Zip drive. >It starts with one page of the start up bios fine, then this comes up: > >ULTRA 100 (tm) BIOS Version 2.01 (Build 27) Maxtor Ultra ATA 100 >Controller by (C) 1999-2000 Promise Technology, Inc. All rights reserved > >Detecting - > >D0 IOMEGA Zip 100 ATAPI >D1 Not Detected >D2 Not Detected >D3 Not Detected > >Ultra 100 BIOS is not installed because there are no drivers attached. (I >installed the drivers several times and the computer says they are installed) This is normal. The Zip 100 ATAPI is not a Ultra 100 device so you don't need this driver. You only need the driver when a hard drive with Ultra 100 capabilities is attached to one of the ports. >Then the Microsoft Windows 98 start up screen comes on and goes off, then > >Bad Command or File Name >C:\>ndisban >Bad command or file name >C:\>redirall >bad command or file name >C:\>Rem - by Windows 98 Network - C:\Windows\net start >C:\>arswait >Bad command or file name >C:\>z:login >Invalid drive specification It appears that some extraneous commands were left in the autoexec.bat or win.ini file during some software or device install. You may be seeing them because the "splash screen" is not covering up the commands. If you just started seeing them, it could be because they were covered up before. Normally the Windows 98 Starting screen covers up commands such as these. There is a startup setting to not enable the splash screen. On the other hand, the software installing your zip drive or Promise card may have terminated early before a revised Autoexec.bat could be created without these lines. >Loading NAVDX, pleas wait....(this is a normal line) It appears that this line is loading your anti-virus software before graphical windows starts. >Then another Microsoft Windows 98 window comes on again >and then these lines come up: > >C:\>rem-by Windows 98 Network - C:\Windows Net Start >C:\>arswait >Bad command or file name >C:\>z:login >Invalid drive specification Looks like more garbage left from windows logging on a network in the DOS mode, maybe when a disk image was loaded???. >Then all loads normally. I do not know whether to try to fix this or >leave well enough alone. Anyone know what I should do. If you could post what is in your autoexec.bat, we could probably tell you what you really need and a simple edit would get rid of the lines. However they don't hurt anything staying there. Doug PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml