Tech Help Needed!!

[The Trickster]

Here's the link for the Windows 98 version from Reactor Critical. Thanks for the pick up andrewas!

http://www.reactorcritical.com/files...0.82_win9x.exe

[Hayashi]

Err, any thing I can do in case *this install* also goes belly up? Short of digging up my TNT2 CD, what can I do to get back to where I was?

[Paladin2000]

Yeah I have to agree with the posts above. I have been using TNT2 card from Creative Labs in my old K6-III and I have stopped downloading drivers from Creative becuase they seemed to stop updating their drivers for a long long time. The same goes for my SB Live but I have never bother to upgrade my SB Live for more than 2 years anyway.

You might want to try the detonator driver series from nVidia. The drivers are compatible with your TNT2 but some of the utilities that comes with the card might not work. Well actually, none of them will ever work after switching to Detonator drivers but at least you are getting new drivers every now and then.

[Paladin2000]

Originally posted by Hayashi: Err, any thing I can do in case *this install* also goes belly up? Short of digging up my TNT2 CD, what can I do to get back to where I was?

Here is what you can do:

1. Download the detonator drivers.

2. Reboot your PC and press F8 before the stpid Microsoft Windows screen loads up. Select the "safe mode". I am assumming you are running on Windows 98 SE.

3. Go to "Control Panel" and select "System" and on the taps above, select "Device Manager". Locate the item called "Display adaptors" and delete all devices that are attach to this item.

4. Reboot your windows and install the Detonator drivers. You might be asked to insert the original windows disk, in any case just have the disk ready in case if the damn Windows ask for it.

5. After the drivers is installed, reboot your PC again.

6. The next time, Windows should automatically detects your TNT2 card and make use of the Detonator driver. If it doesn't just go to the control panel again and delete the device which is marked with a question mark (?) and reboot your PC again. This will trigger the auto hardware detect to kick in again.

Hope that helps.

[Hayashi]

Here's something for the computer equivalent of the X-Files: my PC can shut down normally again.
I looked at the MS web site for help, and decided to leave well enough alone as I wasn't confident of doing what they suggested without causing even more damage - I had to edit my registry or something.
Then I installed Norton Systemworks 2003. I uninstalled my previous version of Norton (2000) and after installing the newer version I decided, on a whim, to see if the PC would shut down. And it did!
How strange (not that I'm complaining). [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img]