ms-dos help

[mikey5194]

Hi people of msfn forums, i had some old dos games so i decided to put them on my windows 98, i tried to play a game called stunt driver, but i didnt set up the program, i just went straight to the game file. my pc shut down and then started up the program as it usually does, it says

windows 98 is starting your ms-dos based program

C:\

And then lets you write a comand/directory for the game, you write anything and it goes to another screen with loads of scrolling words taking up the whole screen you can hold any button and the internal pc speaker will bleep loudly but it will slow them all down, there are ramdom commands like death, moo, crash, tyres and things like that, a bit later on all of the words stop and the pc will stay like that until you reset it, when you reset it, it repeats the same thing when it starts up all over again!

i need serious help and think this maybe a virus!

[Mijzelf]

I don't think it a virus, only a dos program wich is far from compatible with your hardware. Try to get to the dos prompt. Alt-X, Alt-Q, Ctrl-C Ctrl-X Ctrl-Q could be the key combinations. When on the dos prompt type 'exit' to return to Windows.

[mikey5194]

I have tried, when you type either ctrl-c, ctrl-q or ctrl-x it brings up the letter with a little arrow to the left hand side of the letter, if you type anything it repeats the process but afterwards beeps and brings up command after command, they are not readable and I do not understand what they mean? what is up with that?

[Mijzelf]

Can you boot your system from floppie or CD, copy C:\autoexec.bat and C:\config.sys and post the contents here?

[«Joseph»]

Press f8 after boot up.

Chose safe mode or safe command prompt. Type win if in dos.

Windows should load.

You sould look in your start up file as dos programs like to fool around with these.

Type Sysedit at the Run start menu command.

Good dos applications will make a back up if your Autoexec.Bat and Config.Sys file, or at least tell you what they added.

You can disable the commands in the start up files by typeing a Rem command infront of them.

E.g. Rem Set blaster= 220 2A etc

Rem Devicehigh=C:\Windows\Command\Anis.Sys /x

Rem Doskey /Insert

Dose any of this work?

[Drugwash]

If I remember correctly, there is some DOS=single command added to config.sys and some other commands in autoexec.bat that you'd need to delete or REM out. It's been a while since I stumbled into such issues though, so I can't offer the exact solution.

But as Mijzelf said above, if you could paste the contents of those two files here, we would be able to advise.