windows/mscdex conflict
20-Mar-93 08:37:51
Sb: windows/mscdex conflict
Fm: Kevin E Davis 70651,3655
To: Jack L. Chalker 72205,613
Jack,
I have the weirdest problem with my new CD-ROM and Windows. It started
just after I installed my CD-ROM and it happened for the first time after I
loaded MS Bookshelf and rebooted. The computer would go through all of
config.sys and autoexec.bat, show the Windows startup screen, and then show a
distorted version of it and go immediately to a cold boot.
I thought it was related to the Word 2.0c/Bookshelf cd because it would
hang only when that cd was in the drive. Then it started happening with other
cd's. Today it happened with no cd in the drive.
I thought of something Jerry Pournelle wrote in March Byte, and added
an /e after mscdex. Sure enough, it now works fine. Take the /e out and it
hangs. Put it back in and all's well.
The strangest thing is this: I have no expanded memory. At bootup
when it gets to mscdex in autoexec it says "expanded memory unavailable, mscdex
version 2.21." Even so it does the trick.
– Kevin