Hello again Harold. Mmmm... The way you access the BIOS depends on what Bios brand you have, but in most cases you have to depress the "del" key while you're booting (at the very beggining, you can see something like "press del to enter setup". In some other cases is F1 or F2. In the case of Hewlett Packard, they mess up a little bit with their logo at the beggining of the booting process, but you should be able to get to the BIOS setup by hitting "del" or F1 or F2 while beggining to boot..
A few years ago, I used to write some failry sophisticated autoexec and config files, but that was while using windows 3.11 and it worked out very well, at the same time I was using a handful of rather demanding DOS programs. But from WIN95 on, it does not really matter how you configured your DOS memory, it overrides all those settings, except for one: if include a CDROM driver for DOS, win95/98 will step back to DOS compatibility mode (real mode) and most likely you will notice the slow down, especially in disk access.
Abou the num lock.. I prefer to have it on so I can use the numeric pad. If you want to get rid of it, in the worst case you have to hit the num lock key. you have a great day
Jorge
At 07:10 a.m. 17/02/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Hello again ... HP Computer 3+ years old, 30 gig hard drive, Windows 98...
You just taught me a great deal. Not what the big Donald calls a "deal" but
nevertheless, a great deal. 1) I never knew that the original config.sys file was so
unnecessary, 2) that it is so easy to create a config.sys file with Notepad, 3) that
Notepad is such a powerful file as to be able to create these strange files (I always
knew Notepad was useful in creating html files; First Page is more useful if I ever
learn to use it), and 4) that in saving a file, one can put the entire path into the
"File name" box and it then bypasses the "Save in" box, and goes directly to the
target of that path (and without passing "Go" but then I don't collect $200). Eight
years on the computer and this is all new to me.
Next question is ... how do I access that BIOS? ... Harold
From: "Jorge D. Camboni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If you need having the numlock off, you have two options: > 1) open notepad, write this line as follows: > numlock=off and save the file as c:\config.sys > > 2)If you want to play a little with the bios, go there and > you'll find somewhere (probably under "advanced features" or > similar) a line like this "numlock on" or "numlock enabled". > just change it to off or disabled (most likely using the page down/up > keys), then hit escape until it prompts you to save the changes and > exit. You're done. Playing with the bios is not so risky, unless you > try to change obscure/unknown parameters. > enjoy --- Jorge Camboni, GY Electronics, Richardson, TX ===
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