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Win98 Boot Annoyance / Delay

Asked by villages_ar in Computer Sound Cards, Windows Batch Scripting, Windows 98 Operating System

Since I have some legacy applications that only seem to work in a Win9x system, I installed Win98 in an older Compaq tower with a PIII mobo.  In order to have a game port, I installed an Avance PCI sound card to replace the on-board sound.

Card is Avance Logic ALS4000.  Driver is ALS ver:ALS40.A1.60, intended as Win 95/98 driver.

Everything works fine (well, actually the mic input doesn't work, but I don't care - the audio-out and joystick ports work fine).  However, the ALS driver script evidently creates a legacy DOS AUTOEXEC.BAT file on C: at each bootup, and the boot sequence from some .ini file somewhere directs the boot sequence to that .bat file.  So, after the Win98 splash screen, text from the new AUTOEXEC file pops up:

C:\
C:\SET BLASTER = A220 Ia D1 H1 T4

Yep - the old DOS blaster entry - completely useless in this environment.

The systems hangs there for a long 80 seconds before evidently timing out and continuing with the Win98 .ini sequence.

I've tried deleting the offending AUTOEXEC file before powering down, REM-ing out the command in the file, and so on.  It just keeps coming back at each bootup, and it keeps making me wait.

How to get rid / override / whatever this useless .ini command to save 80 seconds of boot time?
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