Thanks Ralph. Guess it could have been a too new vir*s, but
I went back to the update site yesterday, and the updates
that were installed yesterday ARE still installed, so
whatever caused that seems to have mysteriously disappeared.
Any takers on that?
No, haven't used any reg cleaners. I can't say how long the
msdos.sys file problem has been happening, but the removed
updates was recent. Does anyone know if the msdos.sys file
can be edited in notepad; can that erroneous line
BootFailSafe=0 be SAFELY removed from it, ("Invalid setup in
the MSDOS.sys file BootFailSafe=0") then just close notepad
out and save changes? I'd still like to know how these
things could happen, this is very odd. I've NEVER seen
anything like them. I HAVE seen updates disappear before,
but that was ONLY AFTER a registry restoration was done (or
reg cleaner like you mentioned) and it was not done this
time.
Thanks,
-Clint
God Bless Us All
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://OrpheusComputing.com
http://ComputerHardware-ConsumerElectronics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: PCWorks: Odd DOS hook @bootup-BootFailSafe=0
Clint,
With the update issue, I can think of 2 different items which
happened
to me recently that either could be involved with your own
situation:
1) You may have gotten a v**us or similar that is so new that
any anti
v**us software that you would use has not had updates for it
yet. In
this case, it played havic enough with your registry that it
now thinks
none of the updates you did have been done. When I recently
got hit, it
messed up the registry enough that I had to do a total and
complete
reinstall of Win98SE from scratch.
2) Did you do any programs to clean the registry??? I tried
this and
OnTrack's SystemSuite's registry clean program really did a
number on me
this time, and I just blindly said ok to what it found, and
when my
system rebooted, none of my system drivers or update settings
or a lot
of other things were seen at all - before reboot, my system
was 32-bit
color with 1152x864 resolution, and then after reboot, it was
256 color
with 640x480 resolution, and nothing else working right. On
that one,
luckily I found a previous to registry clean set of registry
file, and
was able to set that to the registry, and things came up
properly.
With the bootfailsafe issue, who knows what might have caused
that one,
since have seen some weird settings put in the msdos.sys file
as well as
the registry - just the same could be a problem caused by #1
of the
above. Since these uninvited "guests" on computer systems are
as wanted
as the bubonic plague, AIDS, smallpox, or other wonderful
illnesses, in
the human body, they can and do any and all things on a
computer system
- and that could have been the cause of that issue.
Also, some legit problems seem to want to set things in this
file as
well as the registry that are none of its business to do, or
they do
backups of files on your system, and do changes that really
are
unwarrented, without any permission to do so. So if you did
any installs
recently, that might be at the source as well.
Since these problems you are having just happened recently,
any could be
the reason(s) for what you are now experiencing.
Ralph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Clint Hamilton wrote:
>
> Hi all, I'm getting sort of a 'boot up hook', although no
> intervention is needed (no enter key or any key must be
> pressed in order to continue booting properly), it does
hang
> for a second. This is a brand new format, and all is
> operating fine. It is the SAME setup, drivers, software,
etc
> as before, yet this did NOT happen before! (win98)
>
> The error happens immediately after "Verifying DMI pool
> data", and directly below it, no lines skipped, is:
>
> "Invalid setup in the MSDOS.sys file BootFailSafe=0"
>
> I could not 'run' msdos.sys they way you can for instance,
> system.ini, but I did look for it on the HD and found it in
> two places. One is NOT a 'hidden' file and is for
"Adaptec's
> Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum", and is in that folder.
However,
> it is BLANK. Nothing at all is in the file when viewed in
> Notepad. The other area is directly under C: and the file
> there IS hidden. Opening it does show the line
> "BootFailSafe=0".
>
> All I could find on this in searches made no sense. For
one,
> it states that you SHOULD do this for windows to start
> faster! The page also said that if it was set to "1",
> windows would boot in safe mode. Then at another site,
> it said the opposite, that "0" enables safe mode (but that
> was for win95). At another site:
> "Oddly enough, BootFailSafe is considered
> an illegal command, so it was commented-out..."
> which brings up the question, why is it there on this PC?
>
> Still another site stated:
> BootFailSafe= 0 Invalid parameter!
> Use BootSafe= instead!
>
> All other hits (about 100) were in different languages.
For
> one, what could have caused this, how did it happen, and
two,
> how can it be fixed? Scandisk in DOS and windows shows no
> errors, nor does the registry show any errors.
>
> Now something even stranger, I don't know if it's related
in
> some way. I just went to the windows update site to check
> for any new updates. I was just there about 2 days ago
> and needed NONE. NO NEW UPDATES were available.
> Now, it shows I need all sorts of updates and patches,
> that I ALREADY INSTALLED a week ago after the new
> HD was installed! Some even go back to 1999! What
> happened to all these on this computer??!!! How could
> they have disappeared? The site is showing under
> 'installation history' only TWO installed updates and they
> for DX 8.1 and IE 5.01 SP2!
>
> Could these two events be related in any way?
> Thanks,
> -Clint
>
> God Bless Us All
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