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Correct order to install drivers on an Athlon system?

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WorldsEdge

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What is the correct order to install the drivers? After win98SE should I first install the via4in1 drivers then the sound card and display card and then DX7?

Athlon 700
Abit KA7
128MB RAM
SBLive Value
Hercules 3D Prophet2 64MB
 
Why install DX7? Use win2k or winme and its installed already.

If you insist on win98...

Install the VIA, don't reboot, update all drivers without rebooting, install DX7 and then reboot.
 
Warrenton I am using win2k for my business machine. Some of my games don't want to run under win2k (mainly all the EA games) and performance is better in win98SE for me. But thanks I will try the order you suggested.
 
I never ever reboot between driver installs. Seems to work better for me because the all go active at once, rather than over time. Even less like trying to modify a working system.
 
This is how I've always done it:

Win98, VIA, Video, DX7, NIC, sound, modem, etc..

I have always rebooted when asked as well...Seems to work ok.

amish
 
VIA ? DO I have to do the same with K7m ? I don't remember ! System too stable... only installed eveything once !! ONCE !!! 🙂

 
worldsedge-
direct3d games wont work in NT, so I'm assuming they run pretty crappy in Win2K. OpenGL should be OK though. Tell me if I'm wrong, I don't use Win2k except for our server. (and win2k has some issues with NT4, how stupid is that!)
 
No, D3D games seem to run fine in Win2K (some of them, anyway). Win2K has native DirectX support, whereas NT has NO DirectX support.

amish
 
I too install multiple drivers without rebooting. You can run into a problem however when the machine refuses to boot or behaves strangely after you do reboot. For troubleshooting purposes, you have made x amount of changes which now must be undone one at a time. If you do one driver at a time you can test your system each time the driver is loaded.

Personally, I like to get to stable points and make disk images of my OS drives. That way I can always return to one when I have a real problem.


Amish: NT has DirectX 3 support just nothing higher =)
 
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