Hi all,
My system, all of a sudden, started to boot and run in DOS-compatibility mode - sometimes. Sometimes it doesn't, and all is neat and nice. Sometimes it will switch between DOS-compat. and normal mode when beeing warm rebooted, sometimes it won't. No further effects are noticable for me, I also cannot see any systematical cause in this DOS-on-off-behaviour. I didn't install any system-related software for months now. I haven't changed system settings either. When DOS-mode is active, in the system-hardware manager I get an error code , 10 I believe, for the primary IDE driver, it should be changed for an actual version, or that the hardware component is not active. But when trying to reinstall a newer version from CD or web via the button in this info window, I get a message that the drivers are top actual and will not be changed, then the process is brought to an end. Rebooting one or two times normally switch into normal mode again, but also: sometimes it will switch from normal to compat.-mode. As far as I can see, anything else works fine, even the compat.-mode doesn'T seem to trigger any negative side effects.
Hm, any advise or help? I am no computer insider, so please put it as simple as possible.
Thanks, Skybird
Win98SE, DirX8.0a, Piii/450, 128 MB, TNT2M64
My system, all of a sudden, started to boot and run in DOS-compatibility mode - sometimes. Sometimes it doesn't, and all is neat and nice. Sometimes it will switch between DOS-compat. and normal mode when beeing warm rebooted, sometimes it won't. No further effects are noticable for me, I also cannot see any systematical cause in this DOS-on-off-behaviour. I didn't install any system-related software for months now. I haven't changed system settings either. When DOS-mode is active, in the system-hardware manager I get an error code , 10 I believe, for the primary IDE driver, it should be changed for an actual version, or that the hardware component is not active. But when trying to reinstall a newer version from CD or web via the button in this info window, I get a message that the drivers are top actual and will not be changed, then the process is brought to an end. Rebooting one or two times normally switch into normal mode again, but also: sometimes it will switch from normal to compat.-mode. As far as I can see, anything else works fine, even the compat.-mode doesn'T seem to trigger any negative side effects.
Hm, any advise or help? I am no computer insider, so please put it as simple as possible.
Thanks, Skybird
Win98SE, DirX8.0a, Piii/450, 128 MB, TNT2M64