Restarting in MS-DOS mode from Windows hangs the system...

Yet Another Windows Problem…

Whenever I restart in MS-DOS mode from the Start Menu, the system will go through the ‘shutting down’ process and still freezes with a black screen.

However, running the MS-DOS prompt from Windows doesn’t have any problems at all…

What shall I do? Try googling and the solutions seem to be fixing IF Windows give an error message. Windows just dump me to a black screen.

Any help will be appreciated!

The problem is likely to be either in your autoexec.bat file or config.sys. Run msconfig from the Start/Run command on the desktop. Then go through both files, disabling individual commands temporarily to see where the problem lies.

Good luck.

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Microsoft’s solution

What version of windoz is this?

You have an incompatible real-mode driver. Find “Exit to DOS.pif”, get Properties, and on the Program | Advanced tab enable “Specify a new MS_DOS configuration.”

Yet another non-Windows problem being called a Windows problem…

Sorry Bill Gates…

Your welcome.