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Dos not appear while booting

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by akashah

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I facing a problem because when I boot up suppose we can see running memory calculation and so on but my PC cannot see all those thing and PC will direct to Windows.

I try to restart in Ms-dos mode also cannot see dos.

Actually I want to openprogram from dos mode program.

My PC is NEC PC98-21 Xa200, OS Win95, program running in dos ver 4.0.

Please assist me to solve this problem.

TQ.

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by thechas

Have you tried to boot from a DOS floppy?

Your PC may have a feature referred to as "Silent Boot" this give you a splash or blank screen in place of the POST (Power On Self Test) screens.

You may need to set a jumper to enable going into BIOS settings to enable the POST screens.

As to booting into DOS mode, what you need to do, is enable the boot option keys at startup.

I recommend using a system utility such as TweakUI to perform the changes required to see the Boot Keys.

The Code to enable the boot keys is in the file MSDOS.SYS
THIS FILE MUST BE KEPT TO THE SPECIFIC SIZE IN ORDER TO FUNCTION PROPERLY!!!

The statments to change are:

BootKeys=1
BootMenu=1
BootMenuDelay=15 (the number of seconds for you to choose a menu option before the system boots into Windows

If you want to boot into DOS everytime you start the PC, set BootGUI=0

Chas

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