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kinda OT but..."Type path to command interpreter"?
ahhh I wanna kill myself....hey all...I'm the guy below that built the
system for a surveillance system, with a P4P800-e board, some of you responded to a problem I had. Now I have another...lol....I did a system restore in winME to a few days ago from today (the 27th in the restore calender, because I made some changes I wanted to undo) and rebooted: got stopped cold with a "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" error...thats bad news....system wont boot: its not surveilling the store, no video in case of robbery or something...a distinct possiblity in my town....lol...system is just staring at me with a C:\ on its face. so, I start the troubleshooting...the floppy drive I threw in was original equipment (I used as much as I could from the old system when I built the new one for him) and now I find it dont work...figures. I tried to use a winMe boot floppy to run SYS C: command...cant do that. There are 2 maxtor drives in the an 80 gig, and a 160 gig. The 160 gig is the system drive with winME and all the surveillance software (which wont run on 2K or XP unless upgrading for 50000 bazillion dollars) and stuff on it. I open the system up out of curiosity, disconnect the slave drive: system boots up no prob.... Plug slave back in: "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" Repeat several times to confirm... So, with slave drive disconnected, system works..but surveillance software wants that drive so it can store the 20 meg .avi files it creates every 30 seconds, and without it, the software wont initialize...I dont quite understand all that, but its proprietary so vodka kills the urge to really learn..... what are my options....take slave out, put in diff machine and reformat? buy new floppy drive? (neither machine on my home network have floppies, cuz they have bootable USB CD's) looking for a different perspective here.....thanks for any assistance.... |
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kinda OT but..."Type path to command interpreter"?
In article , "Trailboss"
wrote: ahhh I wanna kill myself....hey all...I'm the guy below that built the system for a surveillance system, with a P4P800-e board, some of you responded to a problem I had. Now I have another...lol....I did a system restore in winME to a few days ago from today (the 27th in the restore calender, because I made some changes I wanted to undo) and rebooted: got stopped cold with a "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" error...thats bad news....system wont boot: its not surveilling the store, no video in case of robbery or something...a distinct possiblity in my town....lol...system is just staring at me with a C:\ on its face. so, I start the troubleshooting...the floppy drive I threw in was original equipment (I used as much as I could from the old system when I built the new one for him) and now I find it dont work...figures. I tried to use a winMe boot floppy to run SYS C: command...cant do that. There are 2 maxtor drives in the an 80 gig, and a 160 gig. The 160 gig is the system drive with winME and all the surveillance software (which wont run on 2K or XP unless upgrading for 50000 bazillion dollars) and stuff on it. I open the system up out of curiosity, disconnect the slave drive: system boots up no prob.... Plug slave back in: "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" Repeat several times to confirm... So, with slave drive disconnected, system works..but surveillance software wants that drive so it can store the 20 meg .avi files it creates every 30 seconds, and without it, the software wont initialize...I dont quite understand all that, but its proprietary so vodka kills the urge to really learn..... what are my options....take slave out, put in diff machine and reformat? buy new floppy drive? (neither machine on my home network have floppies, cuz they have bootable USB CD's) looking for a different perspective here.....thanks for any assistance.... Do you check the boot order in the BIOS after every cabling change for the disks ? These Asus BIOS like to change the boot order when you reconfigure the hardware, so be sure you are booting from the drive you really want to use. Paul |
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kinda OT but..."Type path to command interpreter"?
If you used the 80 pin cables to connect to the IDE connector on the
motherboard, it does matter which drive is connected to which connector. I don't have a cable in front of me but their is a color code. The center connector goes to the secondary (slave) drive with the end connector (the one close to the center connector) goes to the primary (master) drive. Obviously, the last end connector goes to IDE #1 connector on the mb. Note that I have documentation from Asus that has a mistake in the manual (for an A8N32-SLI mb) that shows the connectors being reversed - their manual is wrong and maybe so is yours. Also, check if your drives are set up for master/slave or need to be on cable select settings. Someone else already mentioned checking the BIOS. Bob S. "Trailboss" wrote in message ... ahhh I wanna kill myself....hey all...I'm the guy below that built the system for a surveillance system, with a P4P800-e board, some of you responded to a problem I had. Now I have another...lol....I did a system restore in winME to a few days ago from today (the 27th in the restore calender, because I made some changes I wanted to undo) and rebooted: got stopped cold with a "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" error...thats bad news....system wont boot: its not surveilling the store, no video in case of robbery or something...a distinct possiblity in my town....lol...system is just staring at me with a C:\ on its face. so, I start the troubleshooting...the floppy drive I threw in was original equipment (I used as much as I could from the old system when I built the new one for him) and now I find it dont work...figures. I tried to use a winMe boot floppy to run SYS C: command...cant do that. There are 2 maxtor drives in the an 80 gig, and a 160 gig. The 160 gig is the system drive with winME and all the surveillance software (which wont run on 2K or XP unless upgrading for 50000 bazillion dollars) and stuff on it. I open the system up out of curiosity, disconnect the slave drive: system boots up no prob.... Plug slave back in: "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" Repeat several times to confirm... So, with slave drive disconnected, system works..but surveillance software wants that drive so it can store the 20 meg .avi files it creates every 30 seconds, and without it, the software wont initialize...I dont quite understand all that, but its proprietary so vodka kills the urge to really learn..... what are my options....take slave out, put in diff machine and reformat? buy new floppy drive? (neither machine on my home network have floppies, cuz they have bootable USB CD's) looking for a different perspective here.....thanks for any assistance.... |
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kinda OT but..."Type path to command interpreter"?
Yes, I did check this, still get the error! crap..........lol....Thanks for
tip! "Paul" wrote in message ... In article , "Trailboss" wrote: ahhh I wanna kill myself....hey all...I'm the guy below that built the system for a surveillance system, with a P4P800-e board, some of you responded to a problem I had. Now I have another...lol....I did a system restore in winME to a few days ago from today (the 27th in the restore calender, because I made some changes I wanted to undo) and rebooted: got stopped cold with a "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" error...thats bad news....system wont boot: its not surveilling the store, no video in case of robbery or something...a distinct possiblity in my town....lol...system is just staring at me with a C:\ on its face. so, I start the troubleshooting...the floppy drive I threw in was original equipment (I used as much as I could from the old system when I built the new one for him) and now I find it dont work...figures. I tried to use a winMe boot floppy to run SYS C: command...cant do that. There are 2 maxtor drives in the an 80 gig, and a 160 gig. The 160 gig is the system drive with winME and all the surveillance software (which wont run on 2K or XP unless upgrading for 50000 bazillion dollars) and stuff on it. I open the system up out of curiosity, disconnect the slave drive: system boots up no prob.... Plug slave back in: "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" Repeat several times to confirm... So, with slave drive disconnected, system works..but surveillance software wants that drive so it can store the 20 meg .avi files it creates every 30 seconds, and without it, the software wont initialize...I dont quite understand all that, but its proprietary so vodka kills the urge to really learn..... what are my options....take slave out, put in diff machine and reformat? buy new floppy drive? (neither machine on my home network have floppies, cuz they have bootable USB CD's) looking for a different perspective here.....thanks for any assistance.... Do you check the boot order in the BIOS after every cabling change for the disks ? These Asus BIOS like to change the boot order when you reconfigure the hardware, so be sure you are booting from the drive you really want to use. Paul |
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kinda OT but..."Type path to command interpreter"?
Thanks for info, yes the drives are cabled correctly, I even tried reversing
the existng connection to be sure....bios boot order is correct also. Thanks anyway man! "BobS" wrote in message ... If you used the 80 pin cables to connect to the IDE connector on the motherboard, it does matter which drive is connected to which connector. I don't have a cable in front of me but their is a color code. The center connector goes to the secondary (slave) drive with the end connector (the one close to the center connector) goes to the primary (master) drive. Obviously, the last end connector goes to IDE #1 connector on the mb. Note that I have documentation from Asus that has a mistake in the manual (for an A8N32-SLI mb) that shows the connectors being reversed - their manual is wrong and maybe so is yours. Also, check if your drives are set up for master/slave or need to be on cable select settings. Someone else already mentioned checking the BIOS. Bob S. "Trailboss" wrote in message ... ahhh I wanna kill myself....hey all...I'm the guy below that built the system for a surveillance system, with a P4P800-e board, some of you responded to a problem I had. Now I have another...lol....I did a system restore in winME to a few days ago from today (the 27th in the restore calender, because I made some changes I wanted to undo) and rebooted: got stopped cold with a "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" error...thats bad news....system wont boot: its not surveilling the store, no video in case of robbery or something...a distinct possiblity in my town....lol...system is just staring at me with a C:\ on its face. so, I start the troubleshooting...the floppy drive I threw in was original equipment (I used as much as I could from the old system when I built the new one for him) and now I find it dont work...figures. I tried to use a winMe boot floppy to run SYS C: command...cant do that. There are 2 maxtor drives in the an 80 gig, and a 160 gig. The 160 gig is the system drive with winME and all the surveillance software (which wont run on 2K or XP unless upgrading for 50000 bazillion dollars) and stuff on it. I open the system up out of curiosity, disconnect the slave drive: system boots up no prob.... Plug slave back in: "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" Repeat several times to confirm... So, with slave drive disconnected, system works..but surveillance software wants that drive so it can store the 20 meg .avi files it creates every 30 seconds, and without it, the software wont initialize...I dont quite understand all that, but its proprietary so vodka kills the urge to really learn..... what are my options....take slave out, put in diff machine and reformat? buy new floppy drive? (neither machine on my home network have floppies, cuz they have bootable USB CD's) looking for a different perspective here.....thanks for any assistance.... |
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kinda OT but..."Type path to command interpreter"?
"Trailboss" wrote in message
... ahhh I wanna kill myself....hey all...I'm the guy below that built the system for a surveillance system, with a P4P800-e board, some of you responded to a problem I had. Now I have another...lol....I did a system restore in winME to a few days ago from today (the 27th in the restore calender, because I made some changes I wanted to undo) and rebooted: got stopped cold with a "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" error...thats bad news....system wont boot: its not surveilling the store, no video in case of robbery or something...a distinct possiblity in my town....lol...system is just staring at me with a C:\ on its face. so, I start the troubleshooting...the floppy drive I threw in was original equipment (I used as much as I could from the old system when I built the new one for him) and now I find it dont work...figures. I tried to use a winMe boot floppy to run SYS C: command...cant do that. There are 2 maxtor drives in the an 80 gig, and a 160 gig. The 160 gig is the system drive with winME and all the surveillance software (which wont run on 2K or XP unless upgrading for 50000 bazillion dollars) and stuff on it. I open the system up out of curiosity, disconnect the slave drive: system boots up no prob.... Plug slave back in: "type path to command interpreter eg: c:\windows\command.com" Repeat several times to confirm... So, with slave drive disconnected, system works..but surveillance software wants that drive so it can store the 20 meg .avi files it creates every 30 seconds, and without it, the software wont initialize...I dont quite understand all that, but its proprietary so vodka kills the urge to really learn..... what are my options....take slave out, put in diff machine and reformat? buy new floppy drive? (neither machine on my home network have floppies, cuz they have bootable USB CD's) looking for a different perspective here.....thanks for any assistance.... Another thing to try: Disconnect any CD/DVD drives you may have connected to the secondary IDE port and connect your second hard drive to IDE2 instead (change drive jumpers to make it a master.) If your system now boots, see if you can access the second hard drive. If so, try running ME's hard disk checking util (probably in Accessories - it's a long time since I used ME!) If not, it's possible that your 2nd hard drive has died. HTH, -- Rob |
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