AUS COMPUTERS 6 RE AUTOPLAY QUESTION WINDOWS 98
From: John Leister (fyrdemon@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Autoplay Question... Windows 98
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:16:20 +0930


pedro wrote:

> John Leister wrote:
>
> > After doing a clean install on my very stubborn PC which > > decided to have a fit and crash mid process I found a > > very annoying bug....
> >
> > I have an SIS 305 display card and every time the > > computer restarted it kept asking to find my display > > adapter.
> >
> > However having said that I solved the problem by disabling > > the second adapter which was in the system properties. If > > I had not done so Windows would keep on bloody asking if > > I want to instal drivers.
> >
> > The question is why is Windows doing this every time > > the machine reboots?
> >
> > To this all I can say is that one slight possibility > > is my motherboard having a built in AGP video card > > which I am not using as I can't find the drivers for > > it and am not 100% sure if, or how a built in video > > card would work in Windows as far as speed and program > > compatibility goes, especially for games.
> >
> > TIA for any help or comment if anyone can help out here.
> >
> > John >
> Assuming that you have not changed any hardware.. go to settings>
> control panel> systems> device manager, and then delete any entries > under 'display adapters'. Then restart windoze, and it should find your > video card, and install the drivers. (It will ask you for the driver > disk). After this, windoze should not ask again. This is for win98 btw.
> Don't know about later versions.
>
> rgds,
>
> Pete.
> -----

Thanks Pedro
But I already have my display card and drivers up and running and in good order. The problem was that AFTER I had installed that stuff Windoze kept trying to find a display card...