re: Win98 upgrade loads new drivers on its own
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob Stevens
(1 messages posted)
Did the driver issue start after you installed Windows 98 SE on top of Windows 98?
I was thinking of doing the same thing, but if it creates driver issue's, I will
leave well enough alone. Sorry, I can't give you any advice on this problem. I know
Windows 98 has problems.
On Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 4:21 pm, marc paskvan wrote:
>About once every 10th boot up, I'll see the computer is having some difficulty and
>have discovered that I need to boot into safe mode--if the comp hasn't done this
>itself--where I can "Remove" usually one or two drivers in Device Manager. It's
>either the monitor driver (Win98SE has no driver for my Magnavox so I use a Phillips
>that's probably similar). But the other is--the more frequent offender--a driver
>under "Disc Drives" that's for a Maxtor drive; only mine is of Korean manufacture...so
>I wind up with two drivers for the hard drive. I Remove the offending drive(s),
>restart, and I'm good to go for awhile. I'm running a Windows 98SE upgrade over
>my old Win98 OEM version. I once tried to install a bigger hard drive, but it was
>a Seagate. (That didn't work, it was used junk.) All this on my old eMachines
333cs,
>which I use for internet (dialup), mainly. I also have an old 20 gig Buslink portable
>storage USB drive, which has its own driver. I thought this might be the offender,
>thinking the OS may no longer be recognizing it and trying to load a driver for
it
>off the hard drive list. I reloaded the Buslink driver, and still get that Maxtor
>one on occaision. Well, I'm puzzled...and yep, annoyed, when it happens.
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