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How to install older drivers in Windows95

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First post, by vetz

Posted on 2012-11-03, 15:23

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It's very easy to do it in Windows 98, but how is it done in Windows 95?

I'm trying to install an older S3 Virge driver for my STB Velocity 3D card, but the second Windows 95 boots up it installs the standard generic S3 Virge VX driver and asks for a restart. When I get back in and try to update the driver by selecting "Search for updated driver: Yes (Recommended)" and then "Other locations" it turns back nothing since it's not an updated driver. Using the other option "No, select driver from list" has the problem of not having a "Have disk" button found in Win98 which lets you manually add drivers to the list.

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Reply 1 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on 2012-11-03, 19:19

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C:\WINDOWS\INF\OTHER\

and remove the appropriate infs.

Reply 2 of 4, by vetz

Posted on 2012-11-03, 20:43

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leileilol wrote:
C:\WINDOWS\INF\OTHER\

and remove the appropriate infs.

Not possible I am afraid. This is the generic Windows driver. Do you know where that .inf file is located?

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Reply 3 of 4, by pyrogx

Posted on 2012-11-03, 23:25

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C:\WINDOWS\INF\MSDISP.INF is the .inf file for the Win95 stock display drivers, DXS3.INF is probably installed by DirectX and points to the S3 drivers distributed with DirectX. Other 3rd-party drivers' inf-files are often called OEM<X>.INF under Win95.
One of these files should contain the ViRGE/VX driver infos. AFAIK the INF/OTHER directory did not exist until Win98.

Reply 4 of 4, by vetz

Posted on 2012-11-04, 00:15

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Removing MSDISP.INF does not stop the autoinstalling. DXS3.INF or any OEM<X>.INF I can't find at all. Also the INF\OTHER folder do exist. Windows version is 4.00.950 B, which is the OSR2 version.

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