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2 Oper. Systems & 2 Video Drivers ??

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by twuf

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I have system with Win98 and XP dual boot. I upgraded video card to ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9800 under XP. Works fine. Customer said booting to Win98 he watched it install drivers automatically but now only boots into safe mode going into 98. ATI shows slightly different driver versions for both systems on their website. How can i install two different video drivers without screwing up computer some more? If i install a new driver, you are supposed to uninstall all older drivers and software that come with it. I don't want to screw up XP installation. I did not see his computer yet, i just wanted to throw this question at you before i went to his house to check the problem. Any suggestions?

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by thechas

Is the dual boot properly set up?
That is, is there a separate drive for W98 and XP?
At least, different Windows folders?

If the dual boot is set up so that each version of Windows is on a different logical drive, there is NO issue with installing different drivers for each.
Even with 2 different Windows folders, each version of Windows uses it's own device driver and does NOT share driver files from the other version.

If both versions of Windows share a common Windows folder, it should not even WORK!!!

Windows 98:
For the current ATI Radeon driver, you need to install DirectX 9.

And yes, you need to un-install the old driver first.
You may need / want to update the AGP mini-port driver for the chip-set on the motherboard first.

For XP, you will need to update to DirectX 9, and remove the current ATI driver.
Then, install the newer version.

Chas

by twuf

The computer was previously setup as dual boot and worked fine that way. Win98 is on C partition and WinXP on E partition on same physical drive. I know both systems use separate windows system folders but i was confused by using Add/Remove programs "to uninstall old drivers". If i uninstalled from Win98 side, it would take with it XP software too (but leave driver??) The computer is Intel based and didn't need update to AGP miniport. It has DirectX 9.b. I thinks this amounts to installing both drivers on both sides of the fence, make sure AGP-mini ports up-to-date and make sure DirectX is up-to-Date. Thanks for help!!!

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