Win98 won't start after a fresh reload - issue with a video driver?
 

I just reloaded windows 98 on my friend's machine. After
the installation was complete, the machine would not
start up in normal mode. It kept wanting to start in
safe mode. I looked in the device manager under the
display adapters and it shows two things. One being the
S3 Trio 32/64PCI video card that is installed. The
second being a standard PCI graphics adapter. If I
delete the Standard PCI graphics adapter, the machine
will start up normally. It will say it found a new
device and wants to reinstall this standard pci graphics
adapter driver. If I don't install it, the machine works
fine. If I reinstall it, the machine won't start up, it
locks up at the windows progress bar. I tried finding a
more up to date standard pci graphics driver but it seems
it is the latest driver. Any ideas as to what I can try
to get this to work?

Thanks!
John

Win98 won't start after a fresh reload - issue with a video driver?
 

From safe mode, device manager, delete all the adapters and reboot. When
windows detects the card, have your driver disk ready. Should it load and
not give you a chance to specify the driver, then do a driver update through
device manager. If still no luck, see if there are instructions for loading
the driver on the maker's web site.

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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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Knowledge Base Info:
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"John D" wrote in message
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I just reloaded windows 98 on my friend's machine. After
the installation was complete, the machine would not
start up in normal mode. It kept wanting to start in
safe mode. I looked in the device manager under the
display adapters and it shows two things. One being the
S3 Trio 32/64PCI video card that is installed. The
second being a standard PCI graphics adapter. If I
delete the Standard PCI graphics adapter, the machine
will start up normally. It will say it found a new
device and wants to reinstall this standard pci graphics
adapter driver. If I don't install it, the machine works
fine. If I reinstall it, the machine won't start up, it
locks up at the windows progress bar. I tried finding a
more up to date standard pci graphics driver but it seems
it is the latest driver. Any ideas as to what I can try
to get this to work?

Thanks!
John