re: Win98 upgrade loads new drivers on its own
Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1593 messages posted)
Marc,
If you have more than 1 driver listed for a device, open device Manager and remove
Both of the listed drivers, then shut down and reboot. Disabling the Driver will
not work in this instance.
If you do not have a driver for a device, go to the manufacturer's Web Site and see
if you can find one for your exact OS. Be sure to download installation info as well.
If you need help finding drivers post back with Make, Serial # and Model # of the
device.
I'm running eMachine 333i with Win98 upgraded to Win98SE and have used many different
monitors, including Flat Panel, with no problems. As far as the HDD, no specific
driver is required, as Win98SE has adequate drivers for the HDD unless you've installed
something very unique.
BW
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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