Aug032012

How can I disable a driver from installing automatically in Windows 98?

Evan Spangler asks:

I have an old Windows 98 PC that only starts in Safe Mode. Starting in normal mode, I get the blue screen of death. I removed all the drivers, knowing that the necessary ones will be reinstalled automatically. I restart it, get to the logon screen, and the PC starts reinstalling drivers.

It gets stuck on a “acpi irq holder for pci irq steering” driver. As far as I know, the device is not connected anymore. How can I resolve this?


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System: Windows 98
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ferdinan Sitohang

August 3, 2012

Please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182628

Evan Spangler

Thank you so much, this fixed it.

August 4, 2012
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susendeep dutta

August 3, 2012

This message is shown because drivers for all PCI slots are not installed.

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Suman Acharya

August 3, 2012

how about uninstalling or disabling the device from Device Manager.
wish this solution will be helpful to you
http://www.ehow.com/how_6076112_fix-windows-98-safe-mode.html

don’t fogert microsoft – try this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272291