re: Faulty Device Drivers in Device Manager
Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(742 messages posted)
I will leave you to actually try out the suggestions in my previous posts before
going into any of those options with you in more detail.
The yellow question mark and the yellow exclamation mark may be old, but they could
still be part of the cause of your problem, if (for example) those old, faulty device
drivers are causing a driver conflict with some newer device. The only way to be
sure is to sweep them away, in the manner I've suggested previously.
You diminish the chance of curing your problem if you retain those faulty device
drivers. You can always put the faulty devices back later, by doing a SCANREG /RESTORE
to revert to one of the 5 saved registry backups (Windows saves one such backup a
day, so that you can go back 5 days if necessary).
A "Ghost" entry is any entry that *only* shows up in Safe Mode. These should be deleted,
in general, when troubleshooting a device problem. It's the only way of curing certain
types of driver conflict.
However, it is not wise to delete any ghost entries under "Sound, Video and Game
Controllers", unless you have a *lot* of computer expertise, because they are very
difficult to restore. On balance, I would not delete any ghost entries under that
heading.
Ed
On Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 8:09 am, Jonathan wrote:
>Thanks again a nice detailed response and I am grateful. However, I will have to
>go through it properly a bit later. But I do, and have always understood what you
>are refering too. Hence, my responses have dealt with this, as well as giving you
>the information you need - excluding the unrelated dispite how logical they seem.
>Firstly, on a more general point these yellow ! and ? problems are not the cause
>of my shutdown problem as they pre-date this by some 4 years plus as mentioned.
However,
>they are on going long term problems. The balance has only been tipped of late.
>
>Secondly, more specifically and in line with you first point on this new posting
>which I am responding too. I am aware of the the date of w98 and the iomage zip
drive.
>But the point I am making is that I have the most recent drive, which are for w98
>and have been taken from the website. Dispite this, the update is still required.
>No other exists. (But I will look into the rest you have mentioned-I am grateful).
>(Even if I were too be able to locate an older this would still be newer than w98,
>which should then be asking for a downgrade?!!)
>
>I will go through the new posting later and will get back to later.
>
>Lastly, just to raise a new point. Re-booting in the safe mode offers more than
ghost
>enteries. Often there is a longer list of devices - would you delete these so that
>a normal boot and safe mode one reads the same?
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