16bit Window Subsystem

[asusradeon]

On boot up i get this message:

I cant understand it, alos i get this message when i try and run some other programs, can someone help ? This stops me running ipconfig and lots of other stuff that worked before

 

[Suicide Al]

sounds to me like the file AUTOEXEC.NT may be corrupt, so one thing you could try is find another machine that runs the same os as you and copy that file to a cd, floppy or whatever and boot into same mode and replace it to see if that solves the problem. I know I had a problem that like with some .dll a few years ago on one of my xp installs and I just copied it from my roommates laptop and the problem was fixed.

 

[asusradeon]

ill try this and report back, thx

 

[asusradeon]

Great !!
Thx sorted the problem, cant thank you enough

 

[zachj]

I've seen this so much at ResNet in the last month . . . It's a real issue. Keeps one from running a lot of useful stuff.

Z

 

[asusradeon]

WAT ????, It had sorted it for about 1 day now its doing it again !! Anyone gt any other ideas ??

 

[zachj]

Not to ask a silly question, but did you try doing it again to see if it re-fixed the problem? I'd wager this is a virus, because we at ResNet have NO idea what's causing it. Luckily for us, most of the people who have machines that suffer from this also have Backdoor.SDbot or Spybot.Worm, so we reformat it anyway. And truth be told, reformats are best for most viruses, just because the damage has already been done by the time you figure out you had one.

Z

 

[JigPu]

Try making atuoexec.nt read-only (after you replace it with a valid one). Nothing should need to change it, and hopefully that will stop it from getting corrupt. Though if it's a virus, a reformat would be best

Also, if I may ask, could you post the contents of the file (corrupted version) here?

JigPu

 

[asusradeon]

as it's u i will ! 1 sec ill just find it

 

[asusradeon]

k, the code of the curropt version is:


@echo off

REM AUTOEXEC.BAT is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment.
REM AUTOEXEC.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a
REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.

REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

REM The following line enables Sound Blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM.
REM The command for setting the BLASTER environment is as follows:
REM SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330
REM where:
REM A specifies the sound blaster's base I/O port
REM I specifies the interrupt request line
REM D specifies the 8-bit DMA channel
REM P specifies the MPU-401 base I/O port
REM T specifies the type of sound blaster card
REM 1 - Sound Blaster 1.5
REM 2 - Sound Blaster Pro I
REM 3 - Sound Blaster 2.0
REM 4 - Sound Blaster Pro II
REM 6 - SOund Blaster 16/AWE 32/32/64
REM
REM The default value is A220 I5 D1 T3 and P330. If any of the switches is
REM left unspecified, the default value will be used. (NOTE, since all the
REM ports are virtualized, the information provided here does not have to
REM match the real hardware setting.) NTVDM supports Sound Blaster 2.0 only.
REM The T switch must be set to 3, if specified.
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3

REM To disable the sound blaster 2.0 support on NTVDM, specify an invalid
REM SB base I/O port address. For example:
REM SET BLASTER=A0

 

[asusradeon]

to cure this go to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767

not sure if it works i googled it.