First post, by Excelsior
Hello all,
I have the following dilemma: I have a vintage Siemens Nixdorf PCD-5H/75 (Pentium 75, 16 MB RAM, Windows 95) which worked great until today.
Today when I pushed the power button , the system started normally, the Windows 95 logo appeared but after a few seconds a black screen appeared and the message “Windows Protection Error. You need to restart your computer. Press any key to restart” was displayed.
No matter if I press a key or don’t press any key the computer will power off in a few seconds.
When the computer is started again obviously before Windows logo screen appears, I am welcomed with the screen concerning the alternatives – Normal mode, Safe mode, Command prompt only etc.
In this case, if I choose anything else besides Command prompt only, the situation will continue in the way described above (the Safe mode acts the same).
If I choose Command prompt only or boot the system with a boot disk (also Windows 95) I am in DOS environment and I can in this way check the disk and its contents. Everything seemed fine with the exception of Config.sys (which is empty – 0 KB) and Autoexec.bat (which has only a line mentioning the keyboard but nothing else). The Config.sys can be modified without any problems but Autoexec.bat is not possible to edit, move or delete (is considered as a read only file).
Last time I used the computer I didn’t made any modifications in Autoexec.bat or Config.sys or in the Registry of Windows. Also I didn't deleted any files.
Is the problem generated only by Autoexec.bat or something else caused this problem?
If the problem is Autoexec.bat how can I change its attribute from read only?
Thanks in advance!