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At 04:21 PM 12/24/99 -0800, Tom Hula wrote:
>For those of you that have to deal with Windows 98 PCs ... I have 2 PCs
>that refuse to startup at the DOS prompt ... and refuse to run the
>recovery CD, since this process apparently runs in DOS mode.
>
>It gets up to this statement in Config.Sys:
>        DEVICE=C:\ICU\DWCFGMG.SYS
>and displays the following text and then just hangs:
>
>Plug and Play for MS-DOS(R) and Windows(TM) Configuration Manager -
>        R1.44
>Copyright 1993,1994,1995 Intel Corporation..........
>MS-DOS is a registered .........
>
>I have tried running Scanreg and System File Checker and found no
>problem and there are no viruses.  Wondered if anyone else had run
>into this.  My apologies for bringing this up here.  I started first
>at the appropriate newsgroup and the only real suggestion was to take
>PNP off in my BIOS, which I prefer not to do.  I could have sworn these
>worked in DOS mode at one time, but perhaps not.
>        Tom Hula
>        Victor S. Barnes Company
>        616.361.7351  x173
>