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My Keyboard and Mouse are dying on and off
Hi Noel
: Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 INF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: What gets me is why it took an email to bring the response - surely it should be on the website?(or is it just well-hidden?) 'k......I'm back...but, without the install. It won't install. I keep getting an error that says that the install could not take place, and to see the Windows Progress log for details. 'Cept....I have no log called Progress log that I can find. I ran a Search for it and I can't find any log file by that name. ?? So...now what, Chief? Jan "Rick T" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: It's interesting that CQ send you direct to a download, rather than a web page - it actually bypasses the EULA pageg The North/South are like magnets - you can't have one without the other (I don't think anyone's discovered monopoles yet?) Maybe it's one of the few times a large company tech's gone "above and beyond". Rick |
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Hmm - got almost identical error message when I ran the installer on my
system (with an ATI card installedg) OK - back to basics - install Belarc or Everest Home/AIDA32 - see what they report as the display card. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Hi Noel : Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 INF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: What gets me is why it took an email to bring the response - surely it should be on the website?(or is it just well-hidden?) 'k......I'm back...but, without the install. It won't install. I keep getting an error that says that the install could not take place, and to see the Windows Progress log for details. 'Cept....I have no log called Progress log that I can find. I ran a Search for it and I can't find any log file by that name. ?? So...now what, Chief? Jan "Rick T" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: It's interesting that CQ send you direct to a download, rather than a web page - it actually bypasses the EULA pageg The North/South are like magnets - you can't have one without the other (I don't think anyone's discovered monopoles yet?) Maybe it's one of the few times a large company tech's gone "above and beyond". Rick |
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My Keyboard and Mouse are dying on and off
Noel Paton wrote:
Hmm - got almost identical error message when I ran the installer on my system (with an ATI card installedg) Seeee....it doesn't like you either. Now I feel better. g OK - back to basics - install Belarc or Everest Home/AIDA32 - see what they report as the display card. I already have both Belarc and Aida32 from another time, the IE thingie I think....... neither one says anything about a display card, so......I'm guessing here....nVIDIA Vanta Video Adapter, nVIDIA Vanta 3D Accelerator. If that is not what it is supposed to be, then....Idunno? g Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Hi Noel Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 INF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: What gets me is why it took an email to bring the response - surely it should be on the website?(or is it just well-hidden?) 'k......I'm back...but, without the install. It won't install. I keep getting an error that says that the install could not take place, and to see the Windows Progress log for details. 'Cept....I have no log called Progress log that I can find. I ran a Search for it and I can't find any log file by that name. ?? So...now what, Chief? Jan "Rick T" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: It's interesting that CQ send you direct to a download, rather than a web page - it actually bypasses the EULA pageg The North/South are like magnets - you can't have one without the other (I don't think anyone's discovered monopoles yet?) Maybe it's one of the few times a large company tech's gone "above and beyond". Rick |
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Well - that explains why you can't install S3 drivers, doesn't it!g
AIDA32 - under Display|Windows Video go to the link for the Video Adapter Manufacturer and get their latest drivers. post back with the results of your search - then install the drivers gotta go to work now -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: Hmm - got almost identical error message when I ran the installer on my system (with an ATI card installedg) Seeee....it doesn't like you either. Now I feel better. g OK - back to basics - install Belarc or Everest Home/AIDA32 - see what they report as the display card. I already have both Belarc and Aida32 from another time, the IE thingie I think....... neither one says anything about a display card, so......I'm guessing here....nVIDIA Vanta Video Adapter, nVIDIA Vanta 3D Accelerator. If that is not what it is supposed to be, then....Idunno? g Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Hi Noel Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 INF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: What gets me is why it took an email to bring the response - surely it should be on the website?(or is it just well-hidden?) 'k......I'm back...but, without the install. It won't install. I keep getting an error that says that the install could not take place, and to see the Windows Progress log for details. 'Cept....I have no log called Progress log that I can find. I ran a Search for it and I can't find any log file by that name. ?? So...now what, Chief? Jan "Rick T" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: It's interesting that CQ send you direct to a download, rather than a web page - it actually bypasses the EULA pageg The North/South are like magnets - you can't have one without the other (I don't think anyone's discovered monopoles yet?) Maybe it's one of the few times a large company tech's gone "above and beyond". Rick |
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Noel Paton wrote:
Well - that explains why you can't install S3 drivers, doesn't it!g AIDA32 - under Display|Windows Video go to the link for the Video Adapter Manufacturer and get their latest drivers. post back with the results of your search - then install the drivers gotta go to work now 'k...here it is. Ha! I was right..it was the nVIDIA. Version: 56.64 Release Date: March 15, 2004 I'll try to load them now. "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: Hmm - got almost identical error message when I ran the installer on my system (with an ATI card installedg) Seeee....it doesn't like you either. Now I feel better. g OK - back to basics - install Belarc or Everest Home/AIDA32 - see what they report as the display card. I already have both Belarc and Aida32 from another time, the IE thingie I think....... neither one says anything about a display card, so......I'm guessing here....nVIDIA Vanta Video Adapter, nVIDIA Vanta 3D Accelerator. If that is not what it is supposed to be, then....Idunno? g Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Hi Noel Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 INF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: What gets me is why it took an email to bring the response - surely it should be on the website?(or is it just well-hidden?) 'k......I'm back...but, without the install. It won't install. I keep getting an error that says that the install could not take place, and to see the Windows Progress log for details. 'Cept....I have no log called Progress log that I can find. I ran a Search for it and I can't find any log file by that name. ?? So...now what, Chief? Jan "Rick T" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: It's interesting that CQ send you direct to a download, rather than a web page - it actually bypasses the EULA pageg The North/South are like magnets - you can't have one without the other (I don't think anyone's discovered monopoles yet?) Maybe it's one of the few times a large company tech's gone "above and beyond". Rick |
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Noel Paton wrote:
Well - that explains why you can't install S3 drivers, doesn't it!g AIDA32 - under Display|Windows Video go to the link for the Video Adapter Manufacturer and get their latest drivers. post back with the results of your search - then install the drivers gotta go to work now No go..... :-(( Maybe they are not the right ones? I even tried from Safe mode. Here is what is said in the Progress Log. NF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Well.......at least I have new video drivers. I don't know why it can't find the adapter. ?? It's right where I left it after I updated it. "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: Hmm - got almost identical error message when I ran the installer on my system (with an ATI card installedg) Seeee....it doesn't like you either. Now I feel better. g OK - back to basics - install Belarc or Everest Home/AIDA32 - see what they report as the display card. I already have both Belarc and Aida32 from another time, the IE thingie I think....... neither one says anything about a display card, so......I'm guessing here....nVIDIA Vanta Video Adapter, nVIDIA Vanta 3D Accelerator. If that is not what it is supposed to be, then....Idunno? g Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Hi Noel Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 INF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: What gets me is why it took an email to bring the response - surely it should be on the website?(or is it just well-hidden?) 'k......I'm back...but, without the install. It won't install. I keep getting an error that says that the install could not take place, and to see the Windows Progress log for details. 'Cept....I have no log called Progress log that I can find. I ran a Search for it and I can't find any log file by that name. ?? So...now what, Chief? Jan "Rick T" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: It's interesting that CQ send you direct to a download, rather than a web page - it actually bypasses the EULA pageg The North/South are like magnets - you can't have one without the other (I don't think anyone's discovered monopoles yet?) Maybe it's one of the few times a large company tech's gone "above and beyond". Rick |
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Jan Il wrote:
Hi Noel : Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 bingo. 5333 is S3 Compaq is 0e11 Rick |
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nVidia driver use a different log file - but I can't find out where at
present.... What error message do you get?? Boot to Safe Mode, and remove ALL Display Adapters and Monitors from DM there, reboot and see what loads. FWIW, here's the instructions from the fileset for ME Windows Millennium Edition -------------------------- To prepare for installation of the drivers 1 Start Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition. 2 Click the Start button, point to Settings, and click Control Panel. 3 Click Display, and click the Settings tab. 4 Click Advanced, click the Adapter tab, then click Change. 5 Click Specify the location of the driver (Advanced), click Next, click Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location, so you can select the driver you want, then click Next. 6 Select Show all Hardware button, then select the Standard display types from the Manufacturers list. 7 Select Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) from the list, then select Next. 8 Click Next to install the driver, then click Finish. 9 Click Yes when Windows asks if you wish to restart the computer. To install the drivers 1 Click the Start button, point to Settings, and click Control Panel. 2 Click Display, and click the Settings tab. 3 Click Advanced, click the Adapter tab, then click Change. 4 Click Specify the location of the driver (Advanced), click Next, click Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location, so you can select the driver you want, then click Next. 5 Click Have Disk, select or type the path to the folder containing the driver files, then click OK. Windows should find files for your NVIDIA graphics chip. If Windows cannot find the files, check that the path name for the driver files is correct. 6 If Windows found the files, click OK, then click Next. Windows copies the files to the hard disk. 7 Click Finish, then click Yes when Windows asks if you wish to restart the computer. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: Well - that explains why you can't install S3 drivers, doesn't it!g AIDA32 - under Display|Windows Video go to the link for the Video Adapter Manufacturer and get their latest drivers. post back with the results of your search - then install the drivers gotta go to work now No go..... :-(( Maybe they are not the right ones? I even tried from Safe mode. Here is what is said in the Progress Log. NF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Well.......at least I have new video drivers. I don't know why it can't find the adapter. ?? It's right where I left it after I updated it. "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: Hmm - got almost identical error message when I ran the installer on my system (with an ATI card installedg) Seeee....it doesn't like you either. Now I feel better. g OK - back to basics - install Belarc or Everest Home/AIDA32 - see what they report as the display card. I already have both Belarc and Aida32 from another time, the IE thingie I think....... neither one says anything about a display card, so......I'm guessing here....nVIDIA Vanta Video Adapter, nVIDIA Vanta 3D Accelerator. If that is not what it is supposed to be, then....Idunno? g Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Hi Noel Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 INF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: What gets me is why it took an email to bring the response - surely it should be on the website?(or is it just well-hidden?) 'k......I'm back...but, without the install. It won't install. I keep getting an error that says that the install could not take place, and to see the Windows Progress log for details. 'Cept....I have no log called Progress log that I can find. I ran a Search for it and I can't find any log file by that name. ?? So...now what, Chief? Jan "Rick T" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: It's interesting that CQ send you direct to a download, rather than a web page - it actually bypasses the EULA pageg The North/South are like magnets - you can't have one without the other (I don't think anyone's discovered monopoles yet?) Maybe it's one of the few times a large company tech's gone "above and beyond". Rick |
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Hi Rick :-)
Jan Il wrote: Hi Noel Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 bingo. 5333 is S3 Compaq is 0e11 Thank you! Phew! g Jan Rick |
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My Keyboard and Mouse are dying on and off
Noel Paton wrote:
nVidia driver use a different log file - but I can't find out where at present.... What error message do you get?? Boot to Safe Mode, and remove ALL Display Adapters and Monitors from DM there, reboot and see what loads. FWIW, here's the instructions from the fileset for ME 'k....I got 'em printed out, I'll do this as soon as I finish my last transparency project printout. Heh..I'm on a roll....don't get too many of those, so I'm afraid to stop! G Jan Windows Millennium Edition -------------------------- To prepare for installation of the drivers 1 Start Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition. 2 Click the Start button, point to Settings, and click Control Panel. 3 Click Display, and click the Settings tab. 4 Click Advanced, click the Adapter tab, then click Change. 5 Click Specify the location of the driver (Advanced), click Next, click Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location, so you can select the driver you want, then click Next. 6 Select Show all Hardware button, then select the Standard display types from the Manufacturers list. 7 Select Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA) from the list, then select Next. 8 Click Next to install the driver, then click Finish. 9 Click Yes when Windows asks if you wish to restart the computer. To install the drivers 1 Click the Start button, point to Settings, and click Control Panel. 2 Click Display, and click the Settings tab. 3 Click Advanced, click the Adapter tab, then click Change. 4 Click Specify the location of the driver (Advanced), click Next, click Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location, so you can select the driver you want, then click Next. 5 Click Have Disk, select or type the path to the folder containing the driver files, then click OK. Windows should find files for your NVIDIA graphics chip. If Windows cannot find the files, check that the path name for the driver files is correct. 6 If Windows found the files, click OK, then click Next. Windows copies the files to the hard disk. 7 Click Finish, then click Yes when Windows asks if you wish to restart the computer. "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: Well - that explains why you can't install S3 drivers, doesn't it!g AIDA32 - under Display|Windows Video go to the link for the Video Adapter Manufacturer and get their latest drivers. post back with the results of your search - then install the drivers gotta go to work now No go..... :-(( Maybe they are not the right ones? I even tried from Safe mode. Here is what is said in the Progress Log. NF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Well.......at least I have new video drivers. I don't know why it can't find the adapter. ?? It's right where I left it after I updated it. "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: Hmm - got almost identical error message when I ran the installer on my system (with an ATI card installedg) Seeee....it doesn't like you either. Now I feel better. g OK - back to basics - install Belarc or Everest Home/AIDA32 - see what they report as the display card. I already have both Belarc and Aida32 from another time, the IE thingie I think....... neither one says anything about a display card, so......I'm guessing here....nVIDIA Vanta Video Adapter, nVIDIA Vanta 3D Accelerator. If that is not what it is supposed to be, then....Idunno? g Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Hi Noel Jan - the file is C:\windows\s3setup.log Here is what was in the log. What could have prevented it from installing? I had the AV off, and nothing else was running. There were no instructions with the file, not even a Readme, nothing. Should I try to install from Safe Mode? S3Setup v1.00.16-JV (1.01.06) on Win ME bAllowReboot: TRUE bSilentReboot: TRUE bPromptReboot: TRUE bPromptSilentReboot: FALSE VendorID to find:5333 INF File Located at: C:\PROGRA~1\HEWLET~1\S3WISHLD\ps5333ut.inf No S3 display adapter can be detected. - Setup was unable to complete the installation. Check the progress log in your Windows directory for more details. Jan "Jan Il" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: What gets me is why it took an email to bring the response - surely it should be on the website?(or is it just well-hidden?) 'k......I'm back...but, without the install. It won't install. I keep getting an error that says that the install could not take place, and to see the Windows Progress log for details. 'Cept....I have no log called Progress log that I can find. I ran a Search for it and I can't find any log file by that name. ?? So...now what, Chief? Jan "Rick T" wrote in message ... Noel Paton wrote: It's interesting that CQ send you direct to a download, rather than a web page - it actually bypasses the EULA pageg The North/South are like magnets - you can't have one without the other (I don't think anyone's discovered monopoles yet?) Maybe it's one of the few times a large company tech's gone "above and beyond". Rick |
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