This is from my Windows 98SE computer.

Autoexec.bat:

mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
mode con codepage select=850
keyb uk,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys

Config.sys:

device=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
Country=044,850,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys

thankyou i will copy and paste that to my pc and see how i go cheers

add an

@echo off

as the first line in your autoexec.bat
and loose the display.sys line and the two mode con lines.

The post by Woody72 is just setting dos for the UK region. You can delete all of it and I'll just default back to USA. (or google the correct line for your region)
If your booting into Win98 ideally you don't want anything, Win9x only needs entries for anything lacking 9x drivers or compatibility for dos games within windows

does anyone just have a file i can copy and paste? im a little confused now as to what to put in there. i guess i could just leave as is as i said win 98 now boots up fine its just the annoying text on screen

vkcpolice wrote on 2021-04-19, 10:35:

i fixed this by clearing out everything in the system config and autobat files

What exactly did you clear? The files are named config.sys and autoexec.bat. (You can easily open them by running "sysedit" from Start->Run.)

If you emptied the wrong files then that might explain what are you seeing. (I guess your ocd doesn't want your posts to be correct..?)

For Win98/98SE I would just do the bare minimal.
They are from my Win98 VM clean image.

AUTOEXEC.BAT

1@echo off
2set DIRCMD=/OGN
3lh doskey /insert

CONFIG.SYS

1DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\setver.exe

i clearly stated that i cleared the text in the autobat and sys config files...

vkcpolice wrote on 2021-04-20, 05:33:

i clearly stated that i cleared the text in the autobat and sys config files...

Yes, and there is no such thing as an "autobat" file. There is a file named "autoexec.bat".

If you're editing a file named "autobat", then you are editing the wrong file.

autoexec.bat is the file i had to clear out to get windows to boot sorry for the confusion

vkcpolice wrote on 2021-04-20, 04:12:

does anyone just have a file i can copy and paste? im a little confused now as to what to put in there. i guess i could just leave as is as i said win 98 now boots up fine its just the annoying text on screen

As I said you don't actually need them. just delete or if you want a backup rename or move to a folder

If you do want to edit them for whatever reason they are just text files, so open them in notepad (you will need to change file type to show all files)

thanks all i will just leave it for now as windows is booting if anything else happens ill just do a fresh install on win98se