re: System.ini entry gone on reboot Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 2:23 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by madman420 (15 messages posted) Okay... I can see why you are a windows user. My actions are not unwise. Microsoft went to extra lengths to "disable" DOS-mode drivers (and even DOS-mode itself) with Windows ME - everyone knows that. But, for the most part, Windows ME is just Windows 98 SE with some updates & less compatibility testing. The driver that I speak of *WORKS* in Windows ME just fine. As a matter of fact, it seems to work better than the Win98 driver (for CS4236B sound). I have *patched* start-up files: command.com, io.sys, and regenv32.exe - which effectively re-enable the DOS-mode (If you boot from the "emergency boot disk" or the Windows ME CD-ROM, you get real-mode DOS, that's what these patches use). I have used the patches for years with no trouble at all (besides the fact that the startup logo doesn't appear). This is my first shot at loading real-mode or 16-bit protected-mode drivers in the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat. Like I said, everything works when I try it, however, when I reboot, *my* settings get wiped out (in system.ini). OpenWatcom (a sophisticated C/C++ development environment) supplies DOS, Win16, and Win32 facilities for debugging purposes; *their* line (for a 16-bit virtual device driver) doesn't get removed: device=C:\WATCOM\binw\wdebug.386 There must be some workaround for this (some registry setting?) Thanks for reading my posts, but if you don't have any information that could lead to a solution, don't tell me what color to paint my bikeshed. Thanks. On Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 1:58 pm, Ed wrote: >Your actions are unwise! Windows ME is trying to protect you from a Blue Screen Of >Death, by refusing to load (incompatible) Windows 3.1 drivers. You NEED the Win98 >drivers, as a Win3.1 file is NOT a real mode (i.e. a DOS) driver: it is an (incompatible) >protected mode driver. Written in response to: re: System.ini entry gone on reboot (Ed: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 1:58 pm) Responses to this message: Incompatible protected mode drivers (Ed: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 9:44 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] System.ini entry gone on reboot (madman420: Fri, Sep 25, 2009, 4:10 pm) re: System.ini entry gone on reboot (madman420: Tue, Sep 29, 2009, 2:16 pm) re: System.ini entry gone on reboot (Ed: Tue, Oct 13, 2009, 1:58 pm) re: System.ini entry gone on reboot (madman420: Tue, Oct 13, 2009, 2:23 pm) Incompatible protected mode drivers (Ed: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 9:44 pm) re: Incompatible protected mode drivers (madman420: Thu, Oct 15, 2009, 11:58 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum