Difficulties installing Nvidia drivers on Windows 98SE
Hi all
Today I tried to bring some life in an old pc that has been sitting in a dusty corner for a very long time, after I cleaned everything and identified all the parts I tried to install Windows 98SE. Everything went really good, no errors at all during the installation, but when I tried to install the latest drivers (71.84) for the gpu (Nvidia RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro) and restarted the computer, I get a black screen after the Win98 loading screen is gone, also the HDD isn't doing anything anymore, like the system freezed up.
I can fix this by going into safe mode and deleting the Nvidia drivers but you can't do much with a computer that doesn't have decent graphics drivers...
Has anyone here had this before? Or has any idea on how to fix this?
This might be worth noting, I don't have much experience with any Windows below XP, I was 4 the last time I used Win98...
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This method has been known to fix many hardware issues in windows 9x:
https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/11357/how-to-improve-the-stability-of-windows-9x#latest
Thanks for the reply!
I just tried the method you mentioned, but I still get a black screen after installing the drivers, it's weird because this graphics card worked fine before on Win98 (non SE)
I looked at some other forums and found out that installing the chipset driver might be a good idea, I didn't install it yet because windows didn't list it ask for a driver. I had to look a while before I got the good driver but after installing it and a few freezes I managed to successfully install the graphics drivers!!!!!
So to anyone who has issues with their graphics driver, always install the chipset driver(s) first! Especially the AGP driver!