Too Many Parameters ? 2

[ltromans]

Win 98 laptop - on startup, just past the splash screen, I have a blank screen with "Too many parameters". It hangs there for a few minutes, beeps, then goes to the desktop.

It does not happen in "safe" mode.

Thanks
Leslie

 

[PatrickDickey]

My first recommendation (until I have a bit more information) is to run DRWatson. You can do this by clicking on the Start Button, and Selecting Run... Type drwatson.exe in and hit <enter>. Go into it's preferences and select it to load on startup.
If you double click on it in your systray (by your clock) it will do a scan of your computer. The nice thing about DRWatson is, it gives you more 'details' about an error, and it logs the errors for you. SO, after you start up again, you may be able to check that log for the problem.

If this gives you more information, post it here. It may help others to help you with the problem.

Patrick.

 

[BionicJohn]

Sounds like you have too many programs opening on startup.

Can you run MSCONFIG in safe mode and check?



Iechyd da! John
Glannau Mersi, Lloegr.

 

[ltromans]

Patrick

Dr Watson &quot;found nothing obviously unusual&quot;.

John

There are 23 items listed in the &quot;Startup&quot; with the msconfig utility. I think that must be it

Thanks for your help.

Leslie

 

[kippy13]

Just as the machine boots up, press <F8> and step through your
config.sys and autoexec.bat one line at a time. This will show you exactly
which lines are causing the errors.

It can also be an entry in your Autoexec.bat file which is causing it.
Can you post the contents of all three files here and we'll have a look through them.

Hopefully the error exists in one of these files, if not there are a few more that it could exist in.
Try my steps starting at the top and report back.

&quot;Sometimes I do not know but I try hard&quot;- R.F. Haughty 1923

 

[ltromans]

Well kippy13, you were right. It turns out if was the autoexec.bat file and it blew up on the &quot;SET PATH =&quot; It turns out someone must have installed and/or reinstalled some software, and there were multiple references in the path to the exact same location. I edited the path statement and the error message went away.

Thanks.

Leslie