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Grex Micros Item 202: Help with pc startup..
Entered by jy420 on Sun Apr 4 08:12:04 UTC 1999:

Hello people of Grex community!!
I have a question for you people out there.
The questipn is..
How come when my pc starts up..
it reads the config.sys file fine, but
doesn't bother to read the autoexec.bat file?
it just puts me at the command prompt.. not running the autoexec.bat
like the pc is suppose to!!
please help!
respond via email if you can.. thanx a lot!!

ok

6 responses total.

#1 of 6 by omni on Sun Apr 4 09:42:37 1999:

  There are several questions that come to mind.

   Is your autoexec in c:\ or is it somewhere else?
    It MUST be in C;\ or it won't work.
   Do you actually have one? 
    You need to check this because it could be some piece    
    of software modified it and maybe munged it.

#2 of 6 by prp on Sun Apr 4 16:43:39 1999:

And what EXACTLY is the contents of your config.sys file?  Do not try
to describe it, upload it!

#3 of 6 by jy420 on Mon Apr 5 05:18:29 1999:

you people are funny.. don't ask why. anyway yes my autoexec file is in my
root directory, plus my this is the config.sys file as follows:

        device=c:\dos\himem.sys
        device=c:\dos\emm386.exe Ram
        dos=umb
        buffers=15,0
        files=20
        fcbs=20
        lastdrive=d
        devicehigh=c:\dos\drvspace.sys /move
        shell=c:\command.com

hope this helps on helping me.

#4 of 6 by arthurp on Mon Apr 5 05:45:47 1999:

Maybe seeing what is in your autoexec.bat would help.  What thing in there
is it supposed to do that it's not?

#5 of 6 by prp on Mon Apr 5 18:31:44 1999:

Remove the "shell=c:\command.com" line from config.sys.  That should do
the trick.

#6 of 6 by dang on Fri May 7 21:33:02 1999:

That shouldn't cause a problem.

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