Vigilante
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Hey, I've got a custom built PC here that I do NOT know the background on it. He told me it had "resource conflicts" on it.
I went into Safe Mode and removed a LOT of duplicate drivers all over the place, and even drivers for hardware that wasn't there! Anyhoo, I got it cleaned out just fine. My guess is he took this HDD from a different PC into this one. Or at least installed a new motherboard. But I don't know the background.
This procedure worked fine. Upon restart, Windows 98SE reloaded what it found and I helped it along.
Then I went on to ECS web site and downloaded the 3 mobo drivers. AGP, Video, IDE. Didn't have to install IDE though. So only the video was left to install.
First I installed the AGP driver, restarted, no problems.
Then I installed the Video driver, on reboot it says Windows Protection error. It will NOT go anywhere near normal mode!
So I have to go back to Safe Mode, load Standard VGA driver, and then I can work in Normal mode again.
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So the problem is, I've done a ton of things to clear this out and get these SiS drivers to load, NOTHING works. At the most it won't throw the protection error, but will freeze on a black screen with a small blob of color in the middle of the screen.
I've used Driver Cleaner to clear out all traces of the SiS driver, with no luck.
I've manually searched the registry and hard drive for all traces of SiS video driver and deleted them, with no luck.
I've moved the whole INF folder and started with a completely blank one, no luck.
I've downloaded the SiS driver from ECS as well as from SiS themselves with no difference.
The system works like a charm in Normal Mode with VGA except it looks like junk. It has very few startups, and I don't see signs of spyware or viruses. It's just this driver problem.
The motherboard is an ECS 741GX-M
The driver they give you is like an all-in-one driver. Or "uni"driver. But that's pretty much what SiS gives me as well. Here is the mobo: http://www.ecsusa.com/products/741gx-m.html
I might be able to get it, given enough time. But I'm about to kick this POC. I've never had so much trouble loading a driver. So unless SiS AND ECS gave me wrong drivers, I don't know what else to try.
Anybody had this issue? Thanks.
I went into Safe Mode and removed a LOT of duplicate drivers all over the place, and even drivers for hardware that wasn't there! Anyhoo, I got it cleaned out just fine. My guess is he took this HDD from a different PC into this one. Or at least installed a new motherboard. But I don't know the background.
This procedure worked fine. Upon restart, Windows 98SE reloaded what it found and I helped it along.
Then I went on to ECS web site and downloaded the 3 mobo drivers. AGP, Video, IDE. Didn't have to install IDE though. So only the video was left to install.
First I installed the AGP driver, restarted, no problems.
Then I installed the Video driver, on reboot it says Windows Protection error. It will NOT go anywhere near normal mode!
So I have to go back to Safe Mode, load Standard VGA driver, and then I can work in Normal mode again.
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So the problem is, I've done a ton of things to clear this out and get these SiS drivers to load, NOTHING works. At the most it won't throw the protection error, but will freeze on a black screen with a small blob of color in the middle of the screen.
I've used Driver Cleaner to clear out all traces of the SiS driver, with no luck.
I've manually searched the registry and hard drive for all traces of SiS video driver and deleted them, with no luck.
I've moved the whole INF folder and started with a completely blank one, no luck.
I've downloaded the SiS driver from ECS as well as from SiS themselves with no difference.
The system works like a charm in Normal Mode with VGA except it looks like junk. It has very few startups, and I don't see signs of spyware or viruses. It's just this driver problem.
The motherboard is an ECS 741GX-M
The driver they give you is like an all-in-one driver. Or "uni"driver. But that's pretty much what SiS gives me as well. Here is the mobo: http://www.ecsusa.com/products/741gx-m.html
I might be able to get it, given enough time. But I'm about to kick this POC. I've never had so much trouble loading a driver. So unless SiS AND ECS gave me wrong drivers, I don't know what else to try.
Anybody had this issue? Thanks.