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by zlitocook

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I have a white box with a 800 mghz cpu, 128 mb mem, via chip set. Win98 se and alot of programs installed. I now have two keyboards listed, two wave devices, two direct memory access controlers. I can remove them but it just reinstalls at next reboot even if I tell it not to. A new program will not install if every thing is not running great so I need to fix this. I can not reinstall because the wife has too much stuff she can not move right now. And she will reboot me if I try to do any thing right now :) Any ideas?

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by thechas

Have you tried removing both devices?

As I recall, the last time I had this problem, 2 copies of the chipset driver were being loaded.

I recommend that you delete EVERY copy of EVERY device that has a duplicate.
Reboot, and you should be leftwith only 1 of each device.

If not, the next step would be to download and install the latest VIA chipset driver from www.viaarena.com

Chas

by rcom

In addition to what Chas advised I'd do it in safe mode this worked for me many times.

by opatzg9

Take her out to dinner! Otherwise chas and rcom seem to have nailed this one for you. What time do you guys get up??

by zlitocook

Well I told the wife I need to try a few things on the computer and after I removed the projectile vomit and her head stopped spinning I desided it would be better to use one of my other computers and use my wireless connection for everthing:) I didtake her out to dinner but I am a man so the nudie bar was the wrong place to take her! But I got two phone numbers! :) just kidding, please no hate email from any woman please just kidding!

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