"Bad Command" at startup. W98 still boots up?!

[ShiftKart]

Good day,
I've got a weird little problem that I am %100 I didn't prevoke because I havent been tweaking around or playing with any settings. Out of the blue when ever I power up the system (or restart) It shows the bios version, etc.etc. then says Loading W98. A second later it says Bad command in the bootup screen, then W98 continues too boot into Wondows. Anyone know where this "Bad Command" line comes from? Like I said it just started up out of the blue.

One thing too, is that I have a little Windows based program that converts a .tex file to a .tga file and now that doesn't work and when using this program it flashes a littel DOS window (its converting I guess) but now that program doesn't work. At least completing the conversion/ DOS based program.

I'm stumped! Any ideas?

Thanks a bunch.


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[Athlon4all]

Press ctrl as you're booting, select Step-by-step, and see which command is causing it. Then remove it from autoexec.bat

 

[CTweak]

Ditto, edit the Autoexec.bat file - there is something in that file that is pointing to a program that either no longer exists or that you moved.

 

[Pederv]

You could run sysedit and look at the config.sys and autoexec.bat files. You may have a syntax error in a command line that is trying to load something for your DOS based utility.

 

[Seeko]

It's most likely in your autoexec.bat file. If you don't know which command line it is you can place REM with a space before one command line and reboot. If it still shows bad command then remove the previously entered REM and place it in front of another command line. Reboot again. You can keep doing this until you don't get the bad command message anymore.