OT: some computer help needed

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

Is it possibly a hardware issue?  Are all the com ports showing up under my
computer and configured properly?  I know that isn't what it's saying in the
error code but I would check that as well.

Another thing you could try is rebooting it and hitting F8 going into safe
mode and trying it from there.  That's about as close as you can get in 2k
to MS DOS.

Do you have the floppy drive?  Make a boot disk.  2k should let you do that
and boot off the floppy.  There are CD images out there--not sure how
feasible that is now... but they are out there.

This is exactly why I reload every machine I have at least twice a year.
The desktop I reloaded the other day I loaded one year ago and I was having
problems.  Backup backup backup.  On the other hand I do alot of stuff that
is way outside the box of what the software was meant to do.  As I said
before Warez are my friend cuz I am mad l33t.  ROFLMAO Ok not really.

Dumb question but what are the contents of the batch file?  You can right
click and hit edit to look at it without running it.  It is POSSIBLE that it
was never intended to run in 2k at all.  Since XP is largely built on the
bones of 2k it's pretty rare.  Look at what it's trying to execute and then
search microsoft (shudder) for compatability issues.

Just throwing ideas out there.


On 5/9/07, Brendan Doyle <lord_verminaard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hopefully she still has her win2000 CD, pop it in, then go to start->run
> and type: sfc /scannow
>
> It will take a while, but that should fix it.
>
> -Brendan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Dan Bubb <jdbubb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 8:20:35 AM
> Subject: OT: some computer help needed
>
> Dear List:
>
> Cathy and I are pulling our hair out trying to get her engine running on
> Megasquirt.
> It ran (idled) at one point, but now it will only try to run on one
> cylinder at best.
> After trying everything Cathy, Drew or I could think of we believe the
> firmware in the Megasquirt CPU has become corrupted.
>
> There is a batch file that is available for Megasquirt that downloads the
> firmware to the MS ECU.
>
> When I run the batch file on my Windows XP laptop the Command Prompt
> window opens, prompts me for the comm port, then prompts me for the type of
> download I need to perform and then downloads the file giving status of the
> download once completed.
>
> When Cathy tries to run the batch file on her Windows 2000 laptop the
> Command Prompt window opens but she also gets the following error in a
> separate error window that pops up and takes precedence over the Command
> Prompt window:
>
> "16bit MS-DOS SUBSYSTEM
> C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
> C:\WINNT\system32\autoexec.nt. The system file is not suitable for running
> MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the
> application.
> Close/Ignore"
>
> Choosing "ignore" causes the batch file to continue to the next prompt,
> but doesn't allow any entry in the Command Prompt window and then the error
> window opens again with the same message.
>
> Ya know, it's just a lousy batch file for chrisake!
>
> It sounds to me like one of the Microsoft files has a problem but what do
> I know?
> Can anybody give any advice on how to overcome this?
>
> TIA
> Dan
>
>
>
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