Hello list, This is quite long. I have with me a an "old" laptop, old by todays' standards. I have problems regarding its operation. I cannot boot up from it. It hangs/freezes after the system configuration table is shown. I have to make use of a booting diskette in order to access its c drive. I've tried copying the autoexec.bat from the booting diskette and altering the "settings" but it won't do anything. My second problem is the out of memory message which I get if I run a program, like for example a virus scanner. I have reformatted its hard disk, but all proceedings will come back to square one. Being fairly new to computers, I don't know how else to proceed. I have jotted down the info which I think will help in scrutinizing it. ACT 386 model :NB386SX-16 Stingray Rev 4+ VGA BIOS Version3.02 386 BIOS (C) 1987 AMI for Notebook Computer V2.0S Cirrus Logic BIOS PORTION Cyln Head Wpcom Lzone Sec Size Hard Disk C type : 19 1024 7 512 1023 17 60Mb Scratch RAM option : 1 Main Bios shadow : Enabled I've tried fiddling with the BIOS but I can't change/modify the settings System Configuration Main processor : 80386 Base Memory : 640Kb Numeric processor : none Ext Mem Size : 1024 K Floppy drive A : 1.44Mb Hard disk type : 19 Floppy drive B : none Serial Ports : 3F8, 2F8 Display type : VGA or EGA Parallel Ports : 378 ROM BIOS date : 06/13/90 I have also tried modifying the autoexec.bat and Config.sys files but still the problem persists, it maybe that the settings are jumbled. Config.sys : Autoexec.bat device=c:\dos\setver.exe path c:\;c:\dos device=c:\dos\himem.sys prompt $t$_$p$g device=c:\dos\emm 386.exe ram set temp = c:\temp buffers=20 smartdrv files=40 break=on dos=high,umb What important dos files should be always in the root directory ? please help Thanks in advance, Ed Estigoy Baguio City, Philippines PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>