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In article <3719BE2E.MD-1.2.jules@came.demon.co.uk>, Julian Cameron
<jules@came.demon.co.uk> writes

[Snip]
You originally referred to changing the motherboard. When swapping major
components like this you will save a lot of grief in the long run by re-
installing Win95 from scratch.

>Well that went down really well - NOT!
>
>All that happenned was that I lost my cd-rom drive.
In Win95, DOS or both? Is your CD's data cable (wide ribbon cable with
red stripe down one side) connected to the motherboard or sound card?

> The sytem still
>came up ES1868 failed Audiodrive not found even when I put "REM" in
>front of the line.
Is this surprising if you have removed the ESS sound card?

> When I put brackets around the line I also lost my
>cd-rom drive. Here is the 1ST part of the config sys to see if you can
>make any sense for me:
[Snip part of config.sys]

>DEVICEHIGH=C:\ESSUTIL\ES1868.COM /A:0 /I:0
Not sure.

>DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\CDROM.SYS /D:CD-ROM
CD-ROM driver, usually only needed when in DOS mode, Win95 should be
able to run CD without this loaded.

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>Oh and can anyone recommend a very basic dos text editor so that if I
>really screw up I can at least start up with my system floppy disk &
>edit the files back to their original state.
For Win95 edit.com should be in c:\windows\command

HTH
-- 
Bruce Pickett