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Franke48@no-mail.com
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Although I love Win98 and would not touch XP or above with someone
elses computer on a 10 foot pole, I must say that 98 can get stupid
once and awhile. Its doing that right now. I have an older P3
700mhz. It came with a built in video card, which would work some
days, and other days the screen was all flakey, like all small colored
squares with binary code in it. Rather than scrap the whole
motherboard, I plugged in a Virge PCI card that I had in an even older
computer. Much to my surprise, the video quality and speed was even
better and I no longer have that scrambled screen every few days.
However, when I first plugged in that card, I had to go online to get
the drivers for it. In order to go online without bothering friends
to use their computer, I just set the card to the generic VGA PCI
setting. Once I downloaded the correct driver, I installed that one.
That was a few months ago. Yesterday I went into Device Manager for
another reason and noticed one of those yellow error thingies under
video. It was showing two drivers. One is the correct driver for
this Virge card, (which was ok). The other was that generic VGA PCI
driver, which is the one with the yellow error. I simply selected
that driver and used the REMOVE option. I thought that was the end of
it.
Wrong !!!!
Everytime I now boot, I get a message "installing new hardware, PCI
VGA driver". Then it asks me to select a driver or let the computer
do it automatically. Everytime I have hit the CANCEL button and
everytime I boot up, I got to go thru this hassle again and again.....
My video works great the way it is. Why does this thing keep bugging
me, and how do I get rid of it. I thought the REMOVE was supposed to
do like it says..... "Remove it".
I'm not sure where this information is stored but I just ran Reg
Seeker to see if the registry needs to be cleaned up. Somehow I dont
think thats going to stop it.
What do I do?
Thanks
Franke
elses computer on a 10 foot pole, I must say that 98 can get stupid
once and awhile. Its doing that right now. I have an older P3
700mhz. It came with a built in video card, which would work some
days, and other days the screen was all flakey, like all small colored
squares with binary code in it. Rather than scrap the whole
motherboard, I plugged in a Virge PCI card that I had in an even older
computer. Much to my surprise, the video quality and speed was even
better and I no longer have that scrambled screen every few days.
However, when I first plugged in that card, I had to go online to get
the drivers for it. In order to go online without bothering friends
to use their computer, I just set the card to the generic VGA PCI
setting. Once I downloaded the correct driver, I installed that one.
That was a few months ago. Yesterday I went into Device Manager for
another reason and noticed one of those yellow error thingies under
video. It was showing two drivers. One is the correct driver for
this Virge card, (which was ok). The other was that generic VGA PCI
driver, which is the one with the yellow error. I simply selected
that driver and used the REMOVE option. I thought that was the end of
it.
Wrong !!!!
Everytime I now boot, I get a message "installing new hardware, PCI
VGA driver". Then it asks me to select a driver or let the computer
do it automatically. Everytime I have hit the CANCEL button and
everytime I boot up, I got to go thru this hassle again and again.....
My video works great the way it is. Why does this thing keep bugging
me, and how do I get rid of it. I thought the REMOVE was supposed to
do like it says..... "Remove it".
I'm not sure where this information is stored but I just ran Reg
Seeker to see if the registry needs to be cleaned up. Somehow I dont
think thats going to stop it.
What do I do?
Thanks
Franke