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Article #722Re: Removing old DirectX drivers and installing new TNT ones?
From: Robert Schlabbach
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:00
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Rabid <rabid@games.theplanet.net> wrote in message news:7r1527$djo$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk... > Anyway, I went to play a DirectX game and it wouldn't initialise at > all....so I went to reinstall DirectX6.1 from the CD that came with the > card. Started installing and it suddenly asks if it can install some new > drivers for the S3 virge that isn't even in the computer anymore. Then it > comes back asking to install new Voodoo1 drivers.... > > So HOW do I get rid of these and get the TNT2 drivers installed? Boot your computer in SAFE MODE, then go into Device Manager, which should then list ALL devices, including those that are still "silently" installed. Weed out all the junk you no longer have installed, duplicates, etc. Then reboot in normal mode. Regards, -- Robert Schlabbach e-mail: robert@powerstation.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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