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How to properly change video card on Windows 98

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First post, by brotalnia

Posted on 2015-12-20, 19:51

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I currently have a Windows 98 SE computer with a Voodoo Banshee on board. How do i go about upgrading to a Voodoo 3 without reinstalling Windows in the process?

Should i just swap the video cards and then install the Voodoo 3 drivers? Do i need to remove the Banshee drivers? Is it better to remove the Banshee driver first, and then swap the cards, or can i do it after?

Finally, what is the proper way to uninstall the Banshee driver? Is it done through the Device Manager? I would appreciate it if someone could clear up the process for me.

Reply 1 of 4, by alexanrs

Posted on 2015-12-20, 20:28

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It is usually better to remove the drivers (it they provide an uninstaller in the "add/remove programs"), but it should be fine to just swap the cards.

Reply 2 of 4, by Arctic

Posted on 2015-12-20, 21:27

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If you want to be sure to have no driver leftovers then uninstall the drivers in the control panel
and run driver cleaner before you swap the cards.

Reply 3 of 4, by leileilol

Posted on 2015-12-20, 22:48

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Device manager is enough. It's not a mdoern nvidia card; you can do it

Voodoo drivers often share filenames and will overwrite each other in driver installations, and a Banshee is more or less a V3 proto-relative, so the upgrade should be painless. 😀

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Reply 4 of 4, by boxpressed

Posted on 2015-12-21, 00:18

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Before swapping out a video card, I make sure to change the adapter to "Standard VGA (PCI)"--or something like that--and then reboot.

At that point, you can uninstall the Banshee drivers if you like. Then swap in the V3 and load the V3 drivers.

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