Hi ED_TA,

The window with the "DOSBOX 0.6.3, Cpu Cycle:....." title is where you should be able to enter DOSBox commands. The other window is just a status window.

When DOSBox starts, the main window should display a little greeting, instructing you how to use the INTRO (I think) command. And then it should display a prompt like this: Z:>.

Is that what you see? And you get no reaction when you press a key? Not even some of the CTRL-Fn keys?

Hi Minimax,

I can only see the 3 sentences mentioned before in the main window. No greeting,instruction or any Z:> appear. No other thing appear or response me even I press any key.

Do CTRL-FN mean pressing the CTRL key with other function keys such as F1,etc(for course, not ctrl alt delete 😊 )?
I have tried it but there are still no response.

Thank for your help!
ED_TA

To be more clear, the window "C:\dosbox\......" only show 3 sentence.

CONFIG:Loading settings from config file dosbox.conf
MIXER:No Sound Mode Selected.
MIDI:Opened device:win32

The other main window show nothing. Both of them show nothing even I press any keys.

Try different rendering engines, e.g., surface, overlay (by editting dosbox.conf) - Maybe your video card and/or drivers aren't OpenGL compliant.

eL_PuSHeR:

I have already tried all of them, but the problem still exists.

Some questions that come to mind which might help narrow things down:

• Are you using a modified dosbox.conf, or just the standard one? (if not standard, please attach or paste your dosbox.conf into this thread)
• Are you using the SDL.DLL that came with the version of DOSBox you're using?
• What version of DirectX do you have installed? Do you get errors reported when you run DxDiag?
• Are you using the latest sound, video and motherboard chipset drivers available for your hardware?
• Do you have problems running any other software on your system that may be in any way related to this problem?
• How much of the CPU is DOSBox using when it's in this "frozen" state?
• Are you launching DOSBox from a shortcut, or clicking directly on the program icon? If a shortcut, are you passing any parameters?
• Are there any entries in your Device Manager in Windows that indicate a problem with any of your installed hardware or drivers?
• Do you have a valid MIDI device selected in your Windows Control Panel?
• Have you tried disabling MIDI support in DOSBox in addition to disabling sound support? (under [midi], try "device=none" and "mpu401=false")
• What happens if you set DOSBox to start in fullscreen mode?
• Do you have drivers installed for a game controller (joystick/gamepad) that isn't plugged in?

Has anyone else run DOSBox in Windows Server 2003?