Re: no driver
From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 05/04/04
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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 18:36:14 -0700
So your trying to restore soundcard drivers???
If that's the case, go to the soundcard manufacturer's website and download
the latest drivers for the card.
2 Points here:
First, all drivers are the responsibility of and supplied by the device
manufacturers including those drivers that ship with Windows.
Second, this is not a question of pity. If your friend is using a computer,
he should have not only the disks for his applications but also for the
operating system. New systems are required to come with either the
operating system on CD or a means of recovery, either from a CD or from a
partition on the hard drive. However, used systems are not covered by such
a requirement and it's a case of let the buyer beware.
At some point, your friend is going to need the operating system, his hard
drive will crash or his hard drive will fail and he'll need to reinstall.
He should be prepared for that now. His next move should be to purchase the
operating system. He's just spent several hundred dollars on a computer,
it's penny wise and pound foolish for him not to have a means of recovery.
Assuming you resolve the problem with the driver, if that was the problem,
his best insurance against finding himself with a computer and no operating
system, no means of reinstalling or repairing the setup is for him to go to
the store and purchase the OS.
-- Michael Solomon MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Backup is a PC User's Best Friend DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/ "ManiacalCrank" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7dca01c4316e$60cf79f0$a301280a@phx.gbl... >A buddy of mine recently purchased a used PC. (HP > Pavillion, running Win XP Pro) and managed to get a hold > of some nasty virus that was causing him some problems. > He gave me a call to try and fix it, and I came over, > downloaded a couple of Anti-Virus programs, ran them, and > he has a virus that had infected quite a number of files. > the anti-virus program would not let me do anything but > delete a number of the affected files (one of which I am > assuming was an audio driver) and would jam up if i tried > to do anything BUT delete them, so delete them I did, and > now the PC says that the audio devices are running > properly, but there are no drivers installed. So I > figured, no problem, I'd just go back to an earlier > restore date and un-do whatever I did by resetting the PC > to an earlier date, but when I tried this, the system > restore utility refuses to go back any further than the > date I did all the work, and if you ask it to restore > from an earlier point, it says" detected virus such and > such" and says it cannot use that restore point(I tried > all the restore points all the way back to before he > bought the PC). Ok, I give up. What in the world do I do > now? **Note** He does not have the discs that should have > been with the computer, and when I called the shop that > sold him the computer, all they would say is "Oh well, > tough luck, isn't it?" So I came to the microsoft site, > hoping that Microsoft itself would be better sports, and > take pity on someone not able to afford a new PC and had > to buy a used one.
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