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Hercules 3D Prophet II Ultra - drivers W98SE

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First post, by buckeye

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Started out with the original drivers for this card but wanted to switch to Nvidia's 30.82 flavor but ran into issues:

After switching to the standard PCI driver and deleting/uninstalling the Hercules drivers, upon the next boot the system starts calling for the Hercules
drivers and I have to keep hitting skip or cancel. I was able to install the Nvidia drivers but the system was "flakey" with freeze ups and etc.

I'm thinking that the Hercules drivers are still embedded in the system somehow. Does this mean I'm looking at a clean OS re-install or is there an alternative?

Another question: When replacing drivers like I've done what is the correct order of operations in regards to switching to PCI driver, uninstall current....?

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Reply 1 of 2, by leileilol

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When in doubt, hunt down the infs in C:\windows\inf and rename/delete them, then try a reinstall of the driver.

I personally use 30.82 with 12.41's control panel copied over 😉

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Reply 2 of 2, by buckeye

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leileilol wrote:

When in doubt, hunt down the infs in C:\windows\inf and rename/delete them, then try a reinstall of the driver.

I personally use 30.82 with 12.41's control panel copied over 😉

Thanks for the tips, never thought about using a control panel from a different version.

Asus P5N-E Intel Core 2 Duo 3.33ghz. 4GB DDR2 Geforce 470 1GB SB X-Fi Titanium 650W XP SP3
Intel SE440BX P3 450 256MB 80GB SSD Radeon 7200 64mb SB 32pnp 350W 98SE
MSI x570 Gaming Pro Carbon Ryzen 3700x 32GB DDR4 Zotac RTX 3070 8GB WD Black 1TB 850W

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