VOGONS


First post, by terrormiah

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Just started playing around with a pentium 233mmx system and i'm encountering a weird bug i've never had before, basically whenever I have the DOS cdrom drivers loaded into my config and autoexec files windows start up slows to a crawl and the system hangs whenever i launch My Computer or even look at the D drive in explorer but if i remove all lines regarding the CDROM drive everything is normal, except of course i don't have cdrom support in DOS. Current config files look like this:

I've tried both OAK and VIDECDD drivers, VIDECDD seems to slow everything down even worse than OAK did

Autoexec.bat:

SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
set path=C:\Windows\COMMAND;C:\
LH C:\Windows\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD0001

Config.sys

DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DEVICEHIGH=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD0001 (edited)

Reply 1 of 2, by jakethompson1

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Don't put MSCDEX in autoexec.bat on Win95+. Put it in DOSSTART.BAT instead, and if you "restart in MS-DOS mode" it will execute then.

Reply 2 of 2, by terrormiah

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jakethompson1 wrote on 2023-08-07, 22:55:

Don't put MSCDEX in autoexec.bat on Win95+. Put it in DOSSTART.BAT instead, and if you "restart in MS-DOS mode" it will execute then.

dude.... THANK YOU