At 01:04 AM 7/21/99 , Eric Wertman wrote:
>Hi all-
>
>I have a general question about updating drivers for hardware. What is the
>best way to update them? Is it enough just to go to "update driver" in the
>device control panel, or do you need to completely uninstall the hardware
>and eradicate the old drivers first? I have some hardware that Windows
>really wants to see, and it reloads the drivers from it's own database as
>soon as it is unistalled.  These specific drivers are for Crystal Sound PCI
>chipset on the motherboard (Intel Seattle SE440BX). They are not really
>causing me any problems, but I have to have them disabled as I use a
>Soundblaster Live as my sound device, and the game/midi port conflicts with
>an installed joystick. So, Is there a better way around this, and for
>future reference, when updating any other drivers, what is the best method
>to use? Thanks.


You are up against plug-n-play and it will require that a driver be present for
any hardware it finds.  But, the driver does not need to be active.  You can
open the properties box for that driver and disable the driver.  This way
plug-n-play has it's driver and it is not using it.

Another thought on this, have you disabled the motherboard's onboard
sound device?  Often onboard sound, video, SCSI and so forth have
jumper pins on the motherboard or a setting in the CMOS to disable them.
Then your operating system, Win95/98 will not find the device and not
load a driver for it.

I do not use the Intel boards, so I have no practical experience with them.
I hope this helps.


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