Thank you, Rick.
I don't know of any drivers that have been installed after I bought the
computer except for two printers. Their drivers were installed from the CDs
which came with the printers. I have one printer attached to the computer
now. A while back, the computer suddenly didn't know it had a printer, but
that was fixed with System Restore. I don't think I have ever gotten that
"error caused by unknown device driver" message until after I did scandisk.
I clicked "Automatically fix file system errors" and"Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors"
How do I find "all" "unknown device driver"s? And how do I disable them
from the BIOS?
Rowena Montgomery
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Can't install, "lost" hardware, lost all sound
> It is better to get rid of "all" "unknown device driver"(s).
> That is a whole problem of it's own sometimes, but
> very well could be related to this......
> That might be caused by the wrong driver being installed
> and Windows thinks something is one thing when it is actually
> something else... (Or Windows detecting things "wrong".)
>
> I have been able to get sound back in all cases, but
> sometimes it is a real PIA...
> There is no "one size fits all" cookie cutter answer...
>
> If you pulled out the card, (follow anti-static precautions),
> (or, if integrated into MB, disabled it in the BIOS), and then
> un-installed the driver, and then re-installed it according to the
> manufacturers instructions, that is about all you can do easy.
> After that, (and that works a lot), going further can get real messy...
>
> Sometimes the "easy" answer - to fix "all" the problems - is to just
> "save out" your data somewhere, and re-do the entire machine...
> I am a compulsive fixer and patch'em-upper. I have never wiped
> a machine to get rid of a problem... (Sometimes I have to
> "work-around" problems, or avoid them...)
>
> Rick Glazier
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rowena Montgomery"
>
>>I don't want to reinstall Norton, but I followed instructions on their
>>site to use XP's version of scandisk. Not very long after that, my
>>computer crashed; the error caused by unknown device driver.
>>
>> Regarding the sound, I have removed the sound driver and tried to
>> reinstall in Windows device manager. It said the installed driver was
>> the best one for the computer. Still no sound.
>
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