Greetings, My PC has no command

[dompros]

Greetings,

My PC has no command prompt or dos prompt which ever you want to call it?
Can't boot to dos.
No blinking underline just a black screen.
Have to reboot to Win 98.

What's the deal?

Regards

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[Accessdabbler]

"Reboot to Win98"

What OS are you rebooting from?

 

[dompros]

I turn off the PC and it reboots to win 98

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[shmoes]

are you booting to dos through a program?

or start/shutdown/restart in dos

 

[dompros]

no, I'm not booting to dos from a program or any other way, there is no command prompt. As I said a black screen, shut down and start over to get to win 98.

What's so hard to understand?

if I go from f8 keypad to boot to dos there is no prompt if I go from start>reboot to dos there is no command prompt, see what I mean? There is no command prompt on this PC...

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[allteltec]

Sounds like a virus to me.
Have you tryed runing a up today virus scan ?
Try Start
run
and type command.com
If you can get to a command prompt
type set, you should have a line that says
COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM

 

[Comtech]

Not likely a virus. Corrupt, or incorrect drivers in dosstart.bat, autoexec.bat and/or config.sys and probably in command.pif
Find "dosstart.bat", it's in the c:\windows folder, and rename it to "dosstart.bak"
See if it works.
If not, post the contents of your autoexec.bat and config.sys files.
Actually, you can rename autoexec and config, as Windows does NOT need them for anything, then restart in DOS, as well as command prompt, should again work.

Cheers,
Jim

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[dompros]

Yea, I'll go along with ComTech...

I'd say a driver conflict, but locating and dealing with it is not fun!

Any help you may give to pinpoint it is greatly appreciated...

I'll try these tips and see what I can find...

Regards, Robert



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[mudskipper]

I'm sorry to rehash this, but the specifics are lacking a bit.

When you boot up using F8, you get to the startup menu. From there, are you selecting Command Prompt, or Safe Mode Command Prompt Only, or have you tried both?

When you say that you only get a black screen, is your monitor still showing that it is recieving a signal?

Is it possible that your monitor, due to the resolution/refresh rate changes between dos vs windows, is simply positioned incorrectly--so that the command prompt is off of the viewable screen?

Also, what happens if you try to boot to a bootable floppy disk?

Thanks for the info. I am curious to know the results of Comtech's suggestions as well!

Mudskipper
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Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this!
Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out of this!"

 

[dompros]

Very curious, Mud!

Because that's what it looks like, that it's off of the screen now that you mention it!

Everything seems to be working trouble free, otherwise including monitor and the entire system.

I have been kinda wandering around, because I'm running two HD's and EIDE and an SCSI. So I've been looking at them for a conflict

Yea, I can boot to a bootable floppy.

Now that you have brought this up let me go check a few things and get back...

Regards, Robert

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