Marilyn, The file that is causing your system to hang is dosstart.bat and it
is in the windows folder. remark out the line that's causing the error by
putting rem at the beginning of the line. Your sound card will not be
available to dos legacy programs that are expecting the original
soundblaster specification. Possible reasons it is hanging,
go into cmos setup, pci peripherals, and if you have a place that says
configuration disabled, change it to enabled. This will allow the plug and
play to reconfigure itself without having to move a card to another slot. A
lot of motherboards don't show this option anymore, but then if you had one
of those boards this wouldn't be the problem.
If it still doesn't work, go to control panel, system, device manager, and
sound card properties, and see if there is a legacy support tab in there.
You may have an option to enable legacy here that will allow the shutdown to
restart in dos mode.
Last, if all else fails, I use an msdos prompt to restart in dos. Inside an
msdos prompt shortcut, change program, advanced, to msdos mode. Then
specify the msdos configuration in the text boxes provided. You need the
sound card docs to enter in the right commands.
Tom Turak
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Fisk [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 3:46 PM
Marilyn;
sounds like your soundcard is loading realmode drivers in dos.
Look in Autoexec.bat and config.sys
for lines that set Dos config for your soundblaster card.
Look for clues like "set sound" or soundblaster/creative etc.
and rem these lines out, unless you use sound in Dos as in
Dos gaming.
Your sound will still work in windows using windows"virtual" drivers.
If you can't figure it out, post your autoexec.bat and config.sys here
and we will help you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marilyn Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
I'm using Win98 SE and when I try to restart in MS-DOS mode I get a message:
"Locate free PCI resources for Creative Audio Card"
and the system just hangs there.
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