Config.sys boot problem

[fzamora]

I have a problem with a friend's computer. Whenever I try to start up I get the following message;
"INVALID CONFIGURATION GAME ABORTED PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
then I get just below that:
"YOU ARE STILL IN DOS MODE WOULD YOU LIKE TO EXIT MS DOS MODE AND CONTINUE IN WINDOWS?["ENTER"=Y "ESC"=N]"
If I choose Y the same message appears again.
If I choose N the following command line appears:
C:\FRAME11>_
Please help.
Maybe this will help. The friend that the computer belongs to says his son was playing a game called "FRAMES" out of one of those 1000+ Greatest Games. He said he didn't know how to exit the game. He saw a "would you like to enter dos?" or something to the sort and hit "ENTER". That is when the computer died out on him. And when he attempted to restart it the message appeared. I've tried starting with the Boot Disk. Same thing happens.


Thanks, Jin and Philip.
Thanks to you all he's back up and running.

[This message has been edited by fzamora (edited 06-30-99).]

[Jin Vitas]

do this .. several ways to do this.. try this first...

rem > autoexec.wos
rem > config.wos

[philipg]

For you to understand what's happening. When the son entered the game it most likely rebooted to MS-DOS mode and what it does before it does this is it enters a few extra lines in the bottom of your config.sys and autoexec.bat so the game has certain parameters set. What you need to do is delete these lines out of the startup files useing edit and everything should come back to normal.

Here's a possible attack plan:

A.) you may have to type cd\
B.) and path c:\windows\command and/or path c:\dos.
1.) What Jin Vitas said.
2.) edit [enter]
3.) on the blank screen 'save as' autoexec.bat
4.) on the blank screen again 'save as' config.sys
5.) exit edit and reboot.

This should work any problems that arise after the reboot can be fixed through adding the missing lines to your config.sys and autoexec.bat