I replaced a voodoo 3 3000 with a geforce 2 gts/pro. You need to go to the standard vga driver and then remove all of the old drivers as well as the registry entries. I'm not even sure if I have all the steps I used.....ok, found the article.
Step-by-step guide to removing all traces of "Voodoo", "3dfx" and "Glide" from the registry:
You might want to print this out for reference:
1. Open the add/remove programs section and remove any 3DFX items.
2. Open display properties and go to the settings tab/advanced button/adapter tab/change button/display a list/show all hardware/standard display types/Standard Display Adapter (VGA)
3. Hit next and say YES to the warning that pops up.
4. Hit next-finish-apply-close and restart when prompted.
This finishes the first part. Next we need to run regedit when the system comes back up and remove ANY references to 3DFX, Glide, and VooDoo. To do this do the following:
1. Open regedit by going: Start/run and type 'regedit' in the open box (no drive letters)
2. In regedit, open the 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software' folder and delete the '3DFX interactive' folder.
3. Then open the 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software' folder and if you see a '3DFX interactive' folder, delete this one as well.
4. Then click on EDIT from the menu bar at the top of the registry editor and click on 'Find'
5. Now, type in '3DFX' and hit 'Find Next'.
6. When it stop searching the registry hit the Delete key and say yes when it asks you if you are sure.
7. Then hit F3 to do a find next.
8. It is important that you keep repeating this pattern each time it stops (Delete, Yes, F3). Delete every thing it stops on, no matter what it is. However, do not delete anything but the first thing it stops on when it halts its search or you could delete too much. Let the registry editor search for each item you want to delete and this should prevent major problems.
9. When regedit says: 'Finished searching through the registry', close it down and open it back up and repeat steps 4 through 8.
Reg edit will not find everything on the first try so you will have to do steps 4-9 several times. Repeat Steps 4 through 9 for the words 'Glide' and 'Voodoo' as well.
Once you have done these you should be done with the registry removal part of this, the last part that remains is to remove the driver files themselves. To do that, do the following:
1. Open windows explorer by right clicking the 'My Computer' icon and selecting 'Explore'.
2. Click on 'View' from the menu choices at the top and select either 'Options' or 'Folder options' depending on if you have Internet Explorer 3.x or 4.X installed (Win 98 comes with IE 4.x, 95 with IE 3.x)
3. Select the View tab if necessary and make sure that the 'Show all files' section is checked and that the 'Hide file extensions for known file types' box is Unchecked.
4. Then hit OK to apply the changes.
5. Now click on Tools from this same menu and go to Find-files or folders.
6. In this box, the 'Look in' section needs to say C:\ (or what ever your windows directory is in) and the Include subfolders checkbox is checked.
7. Then type in the named box: 3dfx*.* and hit find now.
· Delete any files in the x:\windows\ ; x:\windows\system\ ; x:\windows\inf ; x:\windows\inf\other\ ; x:\windows\help directories. (where x:\ is the Drive the windows folder is located in).
· Also delete the 3DFX folder found under C:\program files
Repeat steps 6 and 7 for the following as well: Glide*.* and Voodoo*.*
This should finish removal of all V3 drivers and registry entries. At this point if you have ever owned a Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo II, or Voodoo Banshee from another company, I would also recommend calling them and having them walk you through the same for their cards as well BEFORE re-installing the new drivers. If you do not, you may have to go through this process again to remove the remaining problems. Also download the Delv.inf file.
Right click on this file and select install and this will complete the removal of any Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo II drivers and registry entries. This does not need to be applied if you had the Voodoo Banshee cards as the Delv.inf file is only for the Voodoo 1 & 2 cards.
Once you are done with all this, simply re-install the new drivers and the problem should be gone! Hope this helps... I removed a v3 3500 and did it this way...and have NO problems whatsoever !! this will save u from reinstalling windows !
Thanks to Smeghead and 3dfx for their detailed help.
Note: Editing the registry can be tricky, if in doubt, call the 3dfx tech support line:
Originally posted by Beach:
appenently my old video card made by voodoo wont let me uninstall old drivers. so i can not install new drivers for my new card. If anyone has replaced a voodoo video card with a nvidia geforce let me know how u did it. THanks again
BeachS
[ 10-02-2001: Message edited by: CRASH ]
