Driver update resets system DURING installation

From: mark (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:02:01 -0800

Try uninstalling the soundcard control
panel/system/hardware/device manager/sound,video game
controller - reboot (new device dialog should come up)
then install the drivers.
G,luck
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi All,
>
>The problem is with the updates for my soundcard (direct
from Creative's
>website). When I try to install, uninstall, rollback,
etc, etc, (i.e.
>anything to do with changing the drivers) the system
resets
>itself during the operation. After re-booting, the
drivers remain
>unchanged from their original state - an older version
of the same
>drivers.
>
>I've tried booting with a diagnostics disk, deleting all
the files
>listed under the driver window for the soundcard, and re-
booting. The
>'wonderful' WinXP just reinstates everything during
start-up without
>asking!
>
>Same applies in Safe Mode, and whether I am logged in as
Administrator
>or a standard user.
>
>My last idea was to install WinXP on an old drive, copy
the Windows
>directory, install the drivers on the clean system, then
make a
>comparison of changed files, and apply those changes to
my existing
>system files - until I realised that there were about
300 changed files.
>
>I have no intentions of reinstalling WinXP from scratch
just to update
>the soundcard drivers, but I really want these drivers
as they solve an
>issue that's been bugging me for months. Can anyone
suggest a method to
>get around this, that doesn't involve reinstalling the
OS?
>
>TIA
>Stunn
>
>P.S. the issue that's been bugging me - just in case
anyone has a
>suggestion for that - is that, after a re-boot, the
sound only issues
>from the front two speakers until I change speaker
settings to two
>speakers, then back to quad.
>
>Soundcard: Soundblaster Live! FourPointSurround.
>
>
>
>
>.
>

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