[triadtechtalk] Re: Old Pentium won't boot to Windows
- From: RobertHenr@xxxxxxx
- To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:54:38 EDT
Hi Howard,
Hi Howard,
I finally got to the A prompt where I typed in format C:/s but when it got
to 15% it hung. Did it again and it stopped at 9%; did it again and it stopped
at 24%.
If I boot without any disk it stops and says
NO ROM BASIC
SYSTEM HALTED
If I boot with a Win98 Startup disk, I get 3 choices, Wihout CD-ROM, With
CD-ROM and MOre Info. But then some more files are missing.
With my old boot disk, it used to list a bunch of bad or missing files but
it went by so quickly that I never did read it. It kept on going and then
everything worked OK. Finally pressed PAUSE and read what files were bad or
missing. They are:
Bad or missing C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
Error in Config.sys line 1
Bad or missing C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE
Error in Config.sys line 2
Bad or missing C:\DOS\Setver.exe
Error in Config.sys line 8
Bad or missing C:\SB16\DRV\SBCD.SYS
Error in line 9
HMA not available Loading DOS low
A:\> Set Blaster =A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
A:\> LH C:\MOUSE\MOUSE
Don't know if any of these bad or missing files are causing my format to hang.
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