Splash screen on boot

[catfishjoe_1]

Ok this is gonna sound weird but, how do I get the logo screen to stay up from start of boot until the op sys loads?
Win98se, Not a compaq 5461(put a gigabyte bios on it, GA-5SMM.F5). It(logo) comes up after DMI pool and then goes off when the two C: lines below come up
What is DMI pool?
I have two instances on boot that C: comes up but is blank behind it(prob cause I deleted the entry in autoexec and config. The entry was for my audio drivers which work without the entries. It would be nice to know where to put a "@echo off", I just can't seem to find it.

Xteq set-up is no help nor is windowsconfigurator and I don't like to use tweak UI.
Thanks
cat

[DragonNOA1]

DMI pooling is the software trying to see what hardware is installed on the system.

[DragonNOA1]

Oh, and to answer the other question, mine has always showed a boot-screen, then showed a DOS line or two, and then gone to the desktop. Don't know if you can "extend" the time it stays on the screen.

[catfishjoe_1]

OK, but after the dmi it looks for the two entries I deleted. Actually I couldn't find where to take them Out but I made config and autoexec empty. What file is the boot process read from. If I find it can I rem the lines and if I put echo off in those files instead of having them empty would it skip them? What would the syntax be, not very hot when it comes to dos.
tia
cat

[stylin19]

You may have a couple of carriage returns (same as hitting enter) in the autoexec.bat file.
If the autoexec.bat & config.sys are empty why not rename or just delete them. Reboot and see if the problem still exists.

The Echo command is used in batch files:
Echo Off
Echo On
Echo only turns off or on the display messages to the screen

The @ is generally used in front of a batch program to turn the screen echo function off.
@program.exe

Bootup files:
Winboot.ini ( if it exists) otherwise
MSDOS.sys
Config.sys
Autoexec.bat
System.ini
Win.ini

for next time, using REM in the first 3 positions on the line you no longer need, in your autoexec.bat, will prevent the line from being executed (REM=Remark). Once eveything goes well, then the line could be deleted later.

hope this helps

good luck