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On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:26:10 +0930, Greg Mayman wrote:
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> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:08:29 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
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>> Hi Greg,
>>> Shouldn't that be "C080,25" rather than "CO80,25"? But what is it
>>> supposed to do?
>> I do not know what it looks like on your screen, but it is indeed a
>> letter C and O like in "colour".
> My mistake! I thought it was a bit of hex arithmetic.
>>> There is a problem. After disabling APM in the CMOS setup, exiting
>>> Windows on a shutdown locks up the computer at the "You may now
>>> safely turn off the computer" screen.
>> Are you sure the computer is really locked up and not just locked in
>> graphics mode? Normally, you are already at the DOS prompt again at this
>> point and can type commands, even though you cannot see what you type.
> You were absolutely right. I now get the DOS prompt as expected.
> I made one change to your suggested method. The batch file is named
> W.BAT, and I have left WIN.COM alone. So I save two characters when
> calling it <GGGGGG>
>> Try entering the mode co80,25 command blindly and see if it changes the
>> screen mode. Or try "mode mono" instead to switch it to black and white.
> Since I was testing this from a clean boot, I just corrected W.BAT and
> now it works as expected.
I tried this and it works, but... going back into DOS the autoexec.bat
is not executed and the packet driver for the ethernet card was not
loaded... but only if windows used the same ethernet card.
I added the autoexec.bat command after mode co80,25
Regards, Bastiaan
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