Windows 2000 prob

[TheDozen]

I tried to patch the drivers for my Acoustic Edge sound card (PSC 706) at www.philipsusa.com and wound up making by Windows 2000 Professional side of the dual boot go kind of crazy. After I restarted, I got the blue screen of death (Win2000 style of course), and had to restart again. Since then, I have tried to reinstall the original driver, but for some reason the computer refuses to do so when I attempt it, giving me an error message that the files cannot be copied.

My specs are: 700 Pentium III w/GeForce as the video card, although this is not likely a hardware problem. Anyway, should I get into the registry and delete those sound files I can identify? After all, the drive with my Win2000 files is acting oddly (it won't allow me to defrag it, for example) even though my Win98 works fine and 2000 runs (there's just no sound added to the error messages I get when I play a sound file). Thanks for any response to this admittedly confused message.

-TheDozen

[sethpa]

Welcome! to all 12 of you You came to the right place, now hopefully the right person will come along and help you out of your gnarly predicament.


sethpa

(are YOU a closet folder?) Come out in the light, fold for the team!

[FlyingPenguin]

First off I'd Scandisk the Win2K partition to make sure you don't have any problems.

Then start Win2K in Safe mode and remove the driver from the device manager. Then try re-installing it.

Force the Add Hardware wizard to use the specific driver you want by selection the "Show all drivers" option then clicking on the "Have Disk" button and browsing to where your drivers are.

Hope this helps...

[TheDozen]

Thanks very much, FlyingPenguin!
I tried that alternate method of changing the driver and it worked this time...before when the driver files were loading they wouldn't go through, but now I am typing to music and all is well.

See you all later,

-TheDozen