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offline regital from Baltimore (United States) on 2002-05-13 21:32 [#00218308]
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I know one of you guys has to be able to help me. I was
restarting my computer and turned it off. Now whenever I
restart my computer it won't bring up Window 98. It gets as
far as this all black screen with white writing on it and
has a prompt reading:

C:/Windows> _ and this line is blinking waitng for me to
type things.

I typed a bunch of things and all said invalid command, and
when I typed start it read, windows is not available in DOS
mode.

My computer is a PC Sony- VIAO. I tried Sony. but they were
no help and I know one of you guys can save me. Luckily I
have access to a computer lab at my college or I'd be
screwed.

Any help is GREATLY APRECIATED



 

offline Tropa from Helsinki (Finland) on 2002-05-13 21:35 [#00218313]
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try typing 'win'


 

offline regital from Baltimore (United States) on 2002-05-13 21:37 [#00218314]
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I'll try that when I get home... Do you know if everytime I
start my computer if it's going to do this?


 

offline Tropa from Helsinki (Finland) on 2002-05-13 21:41 [#00218316]
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It's hard to tell. Another thing you might want to try is
hit 'F8' while your computer is restarting right when it
says "Starting Windows 98..." or something. It should bring
up a menu from which you can choose whether to go straight
to windows or to command prompt.


 

offline Tropa from Helsinki (Finland) on 2002-05-13 21:49 [#00218323]
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Here's some more info


 

offline regital from Baltimore (United States) on 2002-05-13 22:13 [#00218353]
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tropa-

Thanks so much for the info. I'm now gonna go home and try
it out. I was talking to people at school and they made it
sound like I'm going to have to erase everything... If so
I'll die. I have so much shit I need on there, and new songs
I made that I can't redo. :(


 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2002-05-13 22:23 [#00218369]
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Whenever that used to happen i just typed in "win" and it
worked...



 

offline regital from Baltimore (United States) on 2002-05-14 01:28 [#00218558]
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OK... SOME progress. I typed "win " and that gave me the
option to get out of MS-DOS mode, but now my computer is
totally fucked up. The icons are super huge, and I tried
changing the monitor resolution, but it won't work. The
colors are also flat and pixalated. My mouse won't register
and I tried unplugging it and replugging it. The only thing
that works is my keyboard which allows me to get into the
start up menu, but without a mouse it's sort of useless. You
guys helped me before so I'm hoping you can help me again. I
cross my fingers, waiting in the college computer lab.


 

offline Sido Dyas from a computer on 2002-05-14 01:34 [#00218560]
Points: 8876 Status: Lurker | Followup to regital: #00218558



Shit i had similar problems.(the icons and mouse not
working)
I downloaded new drivers to my crappy grafics card and the
problems disaperd.


 

offline regital from Baltimore (United States) on 2002-05-14 01:57 [#00218583]
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I can't download anything because I can't get online. I
think I'm just gonna have to shell out cash and try to get
it fixed. It's not worth all the stress it's causing me.
It's so annoying. I wish I was a computer genious.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-05-14 02:11 [#00218595]
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my computer was going all weird for a bit... I couldn't turn
it on, it just wouldn't come on... then I brought it to the
shop, and when I got home they called and said it worked
perfectly... and so I went back, and it did... then when I
brought it home it wouldn't come on until after a lot of
trouble... I would hook up all the plugs, and try it, and it
wouldn't come on... then if I unhooked them all except the
main power chord, and the monitor, it would... it was
weird... it's working find now though, it seems...


 


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