-=> Quoting Pat Gibney to Larry Marable <=-
Moving some of your message around....
 PG> Hi Larry, thank you for you time and trouble in trying to speed up
 PG> loading of Q5FW!  I had a ton of probs on the first try, machine locked
 PG> up, would not boot, but did boot w/floppy.  After an hour of trying to
 PG> put it back the way it was, finally had to format and restore.
 PG> Thankfully, I had run a total tape backup that afternoon.
Well, attempting to be tactful about this, I must recommend you NOT
try any further 'tuning' on your system.  You don't seem to have the
basic knowledge to do this.  In the following  paragraph I specifically
recommended you copy your current Config and Autoexec to a Bootable
diskette before changing anything.  If you had done this, a simple
boot from this diskette and then a copy of them back to the root
of your C: drive would have restored your machine exactly as before.
No need to do a reformat and reload from tape.....
 LM> My recommendations:
 > First, copy your Config and Autoexec to different names.  Apparently
 > the above does run, and if you mess with them much, the machine might
 > not start at all. Actually, make a 'bootable' floppy and copy them
 > there, then you can boot from this with the same old Config and Autoexec.
 > Try each one of these changes at a time.  See if the machine and then
 > Windows starts ok.  If so, then add next change.
 > -Try to find documentation on 'rocket.bin'.  If it is giving you access
 > to your greater than 540meg harddrive, leave it alone.  If it is a
 > 'disk speedup', I would REM it.
 PG>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 PG> My hd is 540mg, but it is partitioned to use only 528mg due to my type
 PG> of motherboard.  Maybe this was the problem, don't know, but it was a
 PG> nightmare!  Will retain your message for future use and if any success
 PG> is achieved, will keep you advised.  Hopefully in the near future, will
 PG> upgrade the mb and all will be fine. Thanks again! 8-)
Once again you have almost the same machine as I.  I also have a
540meg drive set to use only 528meg because of an older motherboard BIOS
that cannot 'see' anything greater than this.
'Upgrading the motherboard' is not going to be a solution.  You have some
problems in your config and autoexec you are going to have to get corrected.
Did you see the note in this Quicken area from someone to me about the
mis-placement of a QEMM statement (don't know why he sent to me, he
should have sent to you.)  From his message that you do not have a certain
QEMM line as the first line in the config, it would seem reasonable
that you are not even getting the QEMM software to work correctly.
Do you see error messages when you boot your machine?  Do you know how
to press F8 when you see 'NOW LOADING DOS...' and 'step' thru each
config and autoexec line?
I think you need to have some basic DOS training.  And not from a
'guru' that recommends 'upgrade your system' as the answer to your
problems.  I don't know what you might have done by remming out the
'rocket.bin' statement, but if the machine didn't boot, if you had had
the bootable diskette with the old config and autoexec, you should have
been able to easily recover from it.  And then continue to try some
of my other recommendations.
Next recommendation would be to find a reputable local PC business and
carry your case in (no need to take your monitor, they should have one
that will work) and see if they would look at your setup.  Should do
this for a reasonable charge.  And without wanting to sell you something.
You should be able to run WinforWkgps 3.11 on a 486DX50 with a 500meg
harddrive and 8 megs and get reasonable performance.  Not blazingly
fast, but reasonable.
... BASIC LAW OF CONSTRUCTION: Cut it large and kick it into place.
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