Various troubles/ MS Dos?

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cjh - 30 Jan 2004 20:16 GMT

Hello:

During this past week we began having problems with our
printer and display. Also, MS Dos does not show up when we
boot the computer now. We have Windows 98.

We reloaded our printer driver, but still cannot send
anything to our printer to print. Error says printer
cannot be found. Our printer is set as the default
printer. In addition, our display is at 16 bits and when
we change it to 260 it will not "stick" and keeps
reverting back to 16, consequently, the display is awful.

We have used our system restoration disk and reloaded
Windows 98, none of which helped. Is our problem with the
missing Dos?

Any ideas would be helpful.

Thanks.
CJH

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philo - 31 Jan 2004 19:42 GMT

> We reloaded our printer driver, but still cannot send
> anything to our printer to print. Error says printer
> cannot be found. Our printer is set as the default
> printer.

possibly a hardware problem

bad lpt port, printer or cable

In addition, our display is at 16 bits and when

> we change it to 260 it will not "stick" and keeps
> reverting back to 16, consequently, the display is awful.

you need to install the correct video drivers for you
particular card

> We have used our system restoration disk and reloaded
> Windows 98, none of which helped. Is our problem with the
> missing Dos?

Win98 has dos beneath the surface.
there is no need for you to see it

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Steve Baron - KB3MM - 31 Jan 2004 23:28 GMT

You must know something we don't know <gr>

> > We reloaded our printer driver, but still cannot send
> > anything to our printer to print. Error says printer
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
> Win98 has dos beneath the surface.
> there is no need for you to see it

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