Gregg Pfaff wrote:

>
> machine is in "virtual - 86 mode" and it would be
> dangerous to flash the bios. It tells me to disable
> this mode or close windows. well, i'm in dos and
> windows is closed. I cant find anything refering to
> "virtual - 86 mode" but, I did disable the virtual
> memory in device manager and started back up in dos but
> it still said the same thing. what am I doing wrong?
> (besides purchasing a packardbell computer!).
>

Try to "REM" any line in config.sys which refer to momery management
such as emm386.exe.

Jun Qian

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