I NEED HELP uninstalling Voodoo3 2000 and HELP with Radeon 8500

[Accreta]

Can someone tell me the best way to uninstall a Voodoo3 2000 AGP to prepare for installing a Radeon 8500? I've heard of issues with other cards, and I was wondering if there's something special I must do.

Does anyone have any hints about the BEST way to install a Radeon 8500? Should I just install the latest drivers off the internet?
Which drivers for Win ME? the 7191 or the 7206?

 

[Killrose]

Go with the 7206 unless you would like to try the beta 9005 which can be found at Maxreboot.

 

[tazdevl]

Well... the best route is to pull your card... put in the new one and do a complete format and reinstall. There's always a registry key floating around to cause a conflict. Most people seem to have the best luck having a problem free experience with this method.

Next best and what you might want to try first... is to go into your display properties and select the standard VGA adapter in lieu of your nvidia driver. Reboot. Download det-destroyer (detonator destroyer... do a search on google) and run it... it'll wipe out most of the reg keys remaining from your nVIDIA drivers. Then go into device manager and remove the card. Shut down. Plug in the new card... (be sure you have the 9005 drivers handy... can get them @ Rage3D). Be sure to install them in the default directory. Shazam you're done. Reboot.

If this doesn't work... then better back up your files and do a reformat/reinstall of everything.

 

[Killrose]

I'd use the 3dfx driver removal tools (if they even have them) then change the display to Standard pci vga, go into the registry and remove any 3dfx folder in both Local User and Local Machine, then also check Windows/inf/other for any 3dfx info and delete that as well. Re-boot and install the latest Ati driver.
Bench mark it with several benchmarks and compare them with simmilar set-ups to yours and if the resualts look decent, call it good.

 

[kylebisme]

just pull the voodoo out, put the radeon in and instal the latest drivers, you wont have any problems.

 

[SpeedTester]

<< just pull the voodoo out, put the radeon in and instal the latest drivers, you wont have any problems. >>



I'd had nothing but problems switching out voodoo cards for others. Alot of stuff seems to linger behind
with the voodoo drivers. You must uninstall 3dfx tools, here the the procedure I used to use.

1:Uninstall 3dfx tools and reboot
2:Goto device manager and change the voodoo to standard VGA and shutdown.
3: ***I manually go thru the Inf directory and delete all voodoo inf files******
4:***I also go thru the registry and delete all voodoo related strings*****
Steps 3-4 are only intended if you know what your doing, use at your own risk
5ut in the new Video card and loadup drivers

WTF? 5: makes a face with a tongue?

 

[NWRMidnight]

no when you use : and then a P with out spaces it makes and that is what it did.. LOL

Daniel

 

[InterWebGuy]

 

[Accreta]

good call folks...

voodoo3 is now OUT and Radeo 8500 is IN!!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaw! Nice!