re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' Saturday, October 20, 2001 at 7:15 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by carl (316 messages posted) Can email the brand and model # of the cdrom carlmc@mail.com On Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 11:24 am, Rick Singleton wrote: >I have a question about Do >I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?: > > >Well, I have an older compaq computer with a 32X CDROM. It just so happens that >the drivers are not located in windows(95/98/ME/Windows2000). Thus, if I remove >the config.sys and the autoexec.bat, the CDROM becomes a ghost! Compaq does not support >any drivers other then the one I was able to locate for DOS. With the driver defined >in the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, win-95 and win-98 will see the CDROM. >Since ME and Windows2000 do not use the files I have not been able to update this >(Still very functional) processor, since multiple boots are required on installation, >and windows drivers do not exist. Written in response to: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Rick Singleton: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 11:24 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Rick Singleton: Wed, Oct 10, 2001, 11:24 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (carl: Sat, Oct 20, 2001, 7:15 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS ?' (Diana Conner: Wed, Mar 12, 2003, 7:58 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS ?' (Rob: Sun, Apr 20, 2003, 5:54 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS ?' (allen: Fri, Jun 27, 2003, 9:08 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS ?' (scott: Thu, Oct 9, 2003, 7:10 pm) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Angelina: Tue, Aug 12, 2003, 8:46 am) re: Question about 'Do I still need CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT?' (Mihai Panait: Sat, Dec 13, 2003, 11:39 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum