Hello Phil, Wednesday, July 31, 2002, 5:55:59 PM, you wrote: PG> I downloaded an old football game from the Internet which runs only in DOS. PG> At the time the program was made, it was designed to run on Windows 3.1, but PG> I'm running Wndows 98 Second edtion. Here is the problem. The game tends PG> to lock up frequently. At the title screen it tends to have a hard time PG> detecting commands I enter from the keyboard. I tried to unplug my joystick PG> and it still gives the same problem. Surely to goodness I have enough speed PG> on this thing (700 Mhz with 64 MB SDRAM). Is there anything I can do to get PG> this thing to work properly?? PG> Phil. Try to load in the DOS mode. Then load Norton Commander to simple navigation and run your prog. If it hungs up then correct your autoexec.bat and config.sys. -- Best regards, Yakymakha The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com