How do I keep this from happening?

[spondylolisthesis]

When I use the restart command in Win98se, I see the following line:

C:\LH Au30dos.com

It's a dos driver for my sound card I presume.

This line is not in my Autoexec.bat or Config.sys files, so what file is telling the computer to perform this operation?

How can I keep this from loading into memory?

Any clue or help appreciated.

[Jerkymom]

Sounds like it should be in your startup files, but since it isn't, give this a try. It probably isn't the answer, but worth a look.

Go to Start, Run, type in sysedit, OK. Check your Win.ini and System.ini files for that command, either in a Load= or Run= line. If it's there, put a semicolon [;] at the beginning of the line, save and exit.

If your sound card doesn't work after doing this, go back to sysedit and remove the semicolon, save the change and reboot.

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Kim

[This message has been edited by Jerkymom (edited 10-22-2000).]

[spondylolisthesis]

Thanks Kim. I've already looked at those files. There was a pesky printer registration reminder program there that I didn't really need, so I deleted the entry rather than use the semicolon method.

The LH command isn't anywhere I've looked yet. I did move the au30dos.com file(driver?) though, so it can't load now, but I would like to know exactly in which file or driver the command is (the LH command), to satisfy my curiosity if nothing else.

One thing that I have learned through trying several things is that I can delete one of the .ini files that has a similar name (au30*.ini) and windows will rewrite the file every time it reboots. Interesting, as I am not sure just exactly what the .ini files do.

[Paleo Pete]

ini files are files that tell the computer the information it needs to initiate certain routines, programs or drivers. You'll have one for Windows. (win.ini), scandisk.ini, system.ini, and several others, depending on what's installed. The system rewrites it every time you boot because it has to be there, and it's written, I think, from information in the driver files, or maybe from the registry info.

C:\LH Au30dos.com is a command line, the machine is looking for a file named Au30dos.com in the root directory of C drive. It may be that the file is in a different location, you might be able to find it using find formn the start menu and copy it to the root directory of C drive.

The LH part tells the computer to Load it into the High memory area, which is the first 64k above Conventional memory.

Kinda out of my territory here, but I think that's close...


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[spondylolisthesis]

Thanks, I originally recognized this as a problem with my Montego II sound card because the drivers as they are cause some of the other devices on the pci bus to be initialized twice, including tcp-ip, which is 30 sec. right there because a new IP addr. is leased each time I boot. (cable modem)

Needless to say it was really slowing my bootup time. Right now my only workaround, besides tossing the card, is to disable soundblaster emulation. I'd be interested in any ideas anyone might be able to offer.
What I'd eventually like to do is to get deep into the driver code and modify it so that the devices are installed in an optimal config.

[ixl]

Easiest solution: find the file that is being loaded and rename it or move it somewhere else. Then it won't load for sure.
The command line is almost certainly in your autoexec or config, or something they are calling. Or an ini as Pete mentioned.

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