Thumper
Sat May 10 15:03:20 PDT 2008
SOLUTION: I made a mistake by installing the CD that came with the
card. It wasn't needed and messed things up. To solve the problem, I
following these instructions to remove those nasty drivers from my
system:
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http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_installation_tips504.html
Ever have those drivers or devices that just won't go away even though
you're sure you've uninstalled them? Or, say you replace your old
100Mbps network card with a faster Gbps adapter. But, you can't re-
assign it the same IP address because your system insists there is
still an adapter installed with that same IP address and you forgot to
remove the driver before removing the old card (which is now in your
little brother's pc)?
To get rid of that unwanted driver, device, or service:
1) Open the "Start" menu and choose "Run..."
2) Type in "cmd" (without the quotes) and click "ok".
3) At the cmd prompt, type in "set
devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1" (without the quotes) and press
enter. (Note that nothing seems to happen--this is ok. We are actually
setting an environment variable which is going to help us to see
hidden devices)
4) On the next cmd prompt line, type in "devmgmt.msc" (without the
quotes) and press enter. This will launch the Windows Device Manager
Console.
5) In the Device Manager Console, from the "View" menu, select "Show
Hidden Devices".
Now, as you expand the different drivers and devices in device manager
you will see not only the items that Windows currently detects as
installed on your pc (these are the usual items displayed), but you
will also see drivers, devices, and services which have been loaded in
the past but were not uninstalled or are not currently started. You
can find your offending device, right-click, and choose "uninstall" to
remove it from the system completely.
Be careful though; you should note that non-loaded devices, drivers,
and services are "grayed" out, but that doesn't necessarily mean that
you should delete all of them. Only remove items you know you don't
need. And, be careful that you don't change too many devices or you
might need to re-activate your Windows installation.
Last thing, if you accidentally exit the Device Manager Console you
will need to start over again at the cmd prompt. To close the cmd
prompt window, type "exit" (without the quotes).
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I then shut down, installed the Zonet card, turned on, let XP find the
device and install the XP drivers and then it worked fine. I restarted
to be sure and the computer launched XP perfectly.
- Thumper
