Re: XGA, model 90, and XGA206

You have been lost in the thickets of my words. Let me get out my flail mower, OK?

This latest attempt was on a fresh install of 98SE, which had successfully run 64K colors. I installed the XGA206 directly on the system.

After the system wendt down in flames is when I attempted to remove the XGA206 related files.

Daniel Hamilton wrote:
Louis Ohland wrote:
Deleted the XGA206.INF, there was no OEMx.INF that I saw.

Rebooted. System rebuilt device database. I installed the stock XGA driver. Rebooted. Czeched display, no adapter under settings. Wendt to try and verify that by checking system, but now every time I try to access ANYTHING in control panel, it tells me that the program performed an illegal instruction and will be shut down.

I'd say that pure XGA with 206 is not ready.

I haven't had any troubles, although I haven't deleted any INFs or changed any registry entries. I installed Windows 98 and updated the driver. Nothing else. I think an unknown quantity is getting introduced to the equation when the registry gets modified, or INF files get deleted. Doing this introduces test cases where the Windows team themselves probably didn't put much time or effort into testing...hence your control panel apps are now crashing.

--Daniel



INF FILE CLEANUP

If you are reinstalling the XGA206 driver and wish to to get rid of
previous XGA206 driver traces, you can delete the following two files
from the C:\WINDOWS\INF directory:

DRVIDX.BIN -- These will be rebuilt by Windows
DRVDATA.BIN when you install a driver.
OEMn.INF -- See following note.

The XGA06 INF files are copied to C:\WINDOWS\INF as OEMn.INF where
n denotes a number. You can safely delete these files if you are
reinstalling the driver. Make sure you remove XGA206 INF files,
check first the contents of each OEMn.INF before you delete it.

On the later Windows versions, for example, Windows 95C (OSR2), and
Windows 98 or Windows 98SE, look for the file MCABaseXGA206.INF in the
directory C:\WINDOWS\INF\OTHER. The subdirectory INF is a hidden
directory and may not be visible with the default settings of the
Explorer. (Suggested by Peter Wendt / Windows 95C, OSR2).
.

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