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by the jedi

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I have a machine running w/98 & in the device manager it is showing duplicates of nearly every device & they are all conflicting. How do i remove one set of devices. The help page said to delete both, re-boot/re-load device but every time i re-boot it re-loads the device twice again.
I would rather not have re-format unless i have no other options.

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by thechas

Remove all of the devices in device manager.
Shut down the PC.
Remove all plug in cards except the video card.
Boot up.
Go into setup, disable all on board I/O devices that you do not use (COMM 1/2), and set the reset configuration switch to yes.
Install updated MB / chipset drivers.

Follow the card mfg instructions for installing drivers, and add your plug in cards back in one at a time.

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