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USR winmodem and OSR2 horror
... voodoo thoroughly by removing the 3dfxtools and changing the display adapter to standard vga. find and delete any voodoo.inf files. put in your new card and enable 4xAGP in your bios (if your motherboard supports it) but not fast-writes yet (as it causes instability in some machines) when installing drivers use

Preventing Windows from automatically installing drivers?
Soft modems could pose problems for people wishing to use non-Win9x OSes. Even those who exclusively use Win9x may find that installing drivers (binary files) as opposed to INF files (text files) is slightly more complicated. -- Franc Zabkar Please remove one 'e' from my address when replying by email.

How to install drivers from .inf file?
... open the \winnt\inf folder anf look at the oem---.inf files in Notepad for the one that corresponds and delete it (or rename to .old) - no more problem. So how can I stop windows from installing drivers without asking me first? Or better still not to install unless I tell it to. Thanks Paul.

Nvidia says two ways to install drivers
For some reason, Windows95 will run the script. but unless Windows 95 detects the hardware, INF files are no good. There are two processes at work; the PnP identification of the hardware, and the installing of the drivers. If you install the drivers straight off the .inf (the way you would install TweakUI,

Installing Drivers Programmatically
Their reply was that the user was installing the drivers wrong - to me it seems they buggered up the install routine.. Anyway here's how to do it: First completely uninstall the previous drivers and remove the printer from the printers folder. Next delete the Epson .inf files from the folder c:\windows\inf\other\

Odd new behavior of driver setup
Certainly he *must* delete the Banshee related Inf files from Windows\Inf and Windows\Inf\Other!!! 9/ Then reboot. Windows should detect and new graphics adapter. I have sent him instructions from the readme on installing drivers etc. but no go. Copied below is his latest plea for help.

REALLY re-installing drivers in Win95
Installing drivers from .inf files programmatically http://www. domaindlx.com/e_morcillo/scripts/cod/default.asp?page=prn HTH -EGM Edward Muesch <emue...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:gqbInAlvBHA.204@forums.sybase.com... The default action for an .inf file is open, not install. If you check file types in folder

problems with installing drivers/INF
Now from the Nvidia support/faq's page; ""The NVIDIA Detonator drivers are self-installing drivers. This makes it very easy for end-users to upgrade their But you can (technically) run into problems with old .inf files left around or stray driver components. Often people will experience this with the loss of a

3com USR 56k
Igor Tandetnik itandet...@mvps.org microsoft public vc language Lisa Pearlson <n...@spam.plz> wrote: I'm not installing any binaries.. it's relying on microsoft's own drivers. It's an USB modem driver, based on a microsoft template, and is just an inf file, that uses drivers already in windows XP.

What modem?
I found a TID which gives instructions on modifying the operating system key in the INF, and the existing INF files matches up to what is in the TID. Any way to force these drivers to install? Is there a manual way to install these? I tried copying the drivers into the resource directory, but the broker will

Installing Drivers that are Zipped or have inf files
Hari Mahadevan h...@junglebyte.com microsoft public development device drivers Forgot to add, I have two INF files, one for the filter driver and the other is the mandatory miniport driver INF, which can be used to install the driver from the Network Properties Control Panel. I would like to do the same from my

AIW 9000 Pro problem
so i try to boot in SAFE MODE - and i get the blue screen.. so what happens then? im spending two hours getting Windows 98 back on, Windows 98 back on as the main OS (Windows 95/98 will not overwrite Windows NT boot files), then install Windows 98SE over that, along with installing Drivers and games and stuff so my

Problem with installing NVIDIA Drivers
I did suspect that I might be installing drivers for the wrong device, but having established that the unknown device is on the USB root for the motherboard controller (and the card reader is I've tried to mop up all the .inf files deposited by the manufacturers disc but it still hasn'ta clue what it is... Arse!

FAQ : Installing Drivers that are Zipped
karl davis karl-da...@lineone.net alt computer drivers wanted Phew! That was just over 1 hour and has to be my fastest hand-written faq ever. -) Regards Karl http://www.karldavis.com Karl`s PC Device Driver Site and FAQ Pages Site Sponsored by http://www.imagelinkusa.net/ Email: karlda...@hotmail.com.

ESS 1869 (Gallant) not recognised by Windows after re-install
I was able to restore a BOD on win2k when I tried installing the Nt4 drivers for my syquest Ez-Drive 135 just went in and deleted the files that got installed upset when she saw it wouldnt run.. i tried the Win2k INF file ive had on my own web site, and it didnt work, i tried a new INF file from NT Game Palace,

reformatting
INF files are located. In WinME they were in C:\WINDOWS\INF\OTHER but in 2000 there is no "\OTHER" folder. When I had trouble installing drivers in ME I would sometimes have to delete the INF file from the \OTHER folder before they would reinstall properly. If anyone has this card working running Win2000 please

Install scanner - setupapi.log.zip (0/1)
This method also guarantees that you won't have someone deleting folders that might contain data such as the pst and pab files from the original Win95 Exchange mail client which were stored in the Windows directory by default. I've also found that the inf files often come in handy for installing drivers that did

AWE64+NT(servicepack3)=no sound, just midi
Varun Va...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public platformsdk msi Does anyone have any experience installing filter drivers using INF files from an MSI installation? The approach I have taken for now is to install the INF file and the drivers (.sys files) using File table to the winnt\system32\drivers

Help with V3 Drivers
Also, check your \Windows\Inf directory for various voodoo.inf or 3dfx.inf files--you might have some in both that directory and in \Windows\Inf\Other; I had some problems installing a V3 2000 into an older machine, but it wasn'ta problem installing the drivers, and I don't recall the setup program on the CD

Driver for old Dell monitor
The files actually comprising the driver don't actually matter since Windows only looks at the registry and the .INF files, a side effect of this is that it can try and copy files which are already there when installing drivers. the VGA driver on the next reboot and let you install the driver from the Creative CD.