3Dlabs' Windows 95 Driver Uninstallation Proceedure - Sept, 1996 If you experience problems with installing the drivers, and you have previously installed 3Dlabs drivers on the machine, there may be a conflict. Follow the steps below to resolve it: 1. Boot Windows 95 into safe mode. This can be done by pressing "F8" just after the machine has rebooted, when the message "Starting Windows 95 ..." appears. 2. Open the device manager. To do this right-click on the "My computer" icon and choose "Properties". Once the device manager is open, select the "Device Manager" tab at the top of the property sheet. 3. Look at the list of devices on your machine. If there are any listed under "3D Accelerators", such as "Delta Geometry Processor" or "GLINT 500TX", remove them. Next look at the "Display Adapters" section. If any 3Dlabs devices, e.g. "PERMEDIA" or "GLINT Compatible VGA", are listed remove them. 4. Close the device manager. 5. Open explorer and navigate to the "Windows" directory. In here you will find a hidden directory called "Inf". Some releases of Windows 95 use a different structure to others inside this directory, so some of the following files may not be present on your release. Find any file names in this directory that begin with "oem". Examine each of the OEM files, if you have them, in turn by double clicking to load them into Notepad. If any of the files contain references to 3Dlabs, PERMEDIA, or GLINT, delete them. You also need to delete the file called 3dlabs.inf from this directory. Look in the "Other" directory, if you have one, and delete any files whose name starts with 3Dlabs. 6. Windows is now clean of all references to 3Dlabs hardware. Reboot the machine normally and auto-detection of the hardware will begin again. Remember to supply the correct driver disk when it is requested.