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I know that the sound card is installed correctly, and that I have the correct model / driver. It works fine in my Ubuntu installation. What else could be wrong? Is there a way to force WinXP to scan for new hardware? Right click on My computer -> Choose Manage -> Choose Device Manager Now on the right side you have devices. Do you have there Unknown device (with ?) next to it or with (!)? If not left click on any device on right side of window. Then on the top of window new icon shows up that says "Scan for new hardware changes". Press it and wait to see if anything is detected.

Well good thing is i might know what was the cause of it. By default my program was removing last part of the HW_ID. Before it was like: [08:08:46] - Unknown device found: ACPI\PNP0303 ProblemID: 24 [08:08:46] - Unknown device found: ACPI\PNP0F13 ProblemID: 24 Now it is like: [08:08:46] - Unknown device found: ACPI\PNP0303\4&EDE93E0&0 ProblemID: 24 [08:08:46] - Unknown device found: ACPI\PNP0F13\4&EDE93E0&0 ProblemID: 24 It worked without problems till like this week. Don't know why it's not working anymore but i guess on some devices it tries to remove more devices then it should which breaks the windows. I'll see how it works with full HW_ID and then release it. I'll test it during the weekend on my computer. Don't want to crash more computers at work as those 2 i crashed are still not reinstalled by our great IT which needs SLA 5 days to fix system. Cheers

You're .ini file is fine. I think there's something wrong with my proggy :| I'll take a look at it as few days ago i did exactly the same thing as you did and crashed my 2 machines. I just wasn't sure that's my programs fault. They don't boot anymore. However i managed to see that devcon32.exe which i use to remove devices is hanging the machine and waiting for things to happen instead removing devices and probably destroying the machine. I think my devcon32.exe is corrupted. I know remember that i had it on flash which had to replaced because it was corrupting data so i guess similar thing might have happend to devcon32.exe which was on it. I'll check that aswell. My advice. Don't use the program till i know what's wrong. I'm sorry for your 2 machines

Ah crap :/ I misread it. Thought you meant laptops and that you can't use Ati Catalyst and have to use Dell drivers. So you're saying that newest Ati Catalyst don't work for you either? The offical ones?

Easiest solutions are sometimes the best

To save you some time on this - LCD screens work on @60 Hz and only very very rarely you can change this value to something little bigger. Only CRT monitors can change Hz to bigger values.

One of the users here started a webpage and keeps maintanance of Ati mobile drivers. Check them out at www.atimobility.net You can also try this tool http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/ to use the newest catalyst drivers usable for Mobility devices. (i'm not sure but i think atimobility.net uses that tool to prepare those drivers)

With Hp drivers when you doublick/enter on them they first unpack to drive C:\SWSETUP (you are told where they unpack). So just run all drivers one by one and then when Hp finishes unpacking and wants to go with installing them then just stop the instalation and SWSETUP dir should have all your drivers unpacked (but still not totally in 'clean' format.)

Changelog for 0.7.3 - Fixed serious bug that was disallowing device to be removed when there was only one device in the list that didn't had any driver. (tnx kickarse!!) - Added option Update_All_Drivers_Version (read documentation) which makes Windows update all drivers to newest version that it has access to (tnx kickarse!!) - Cleaned up code (useless variables etc) - Fixed bug that made the feature reboot useless (tnx kickarse!!) - Added variable for Log_Path - &SystemDrive Check first post for download link and make sure to READ the first page documentation if you're new to my program or just the settings i've introduced in this version. Huge thanks go to Kickarse for bringing those bug reports ;D

Actually now i just found nasty bug!!! That prevented device removal if only 1 device had error!!!! And this was your situation. You had just one device and another time it worked probabyl because you had more then one! (when you tried comparing Domain Account vs Local one)! To summarize it is now fixed I also already added the new features but i am still thinking about some additions before releasing 0.7.3. I was thinking to port it to new gui before rlsing but it's a major work so i guess i'll just rls it as it is soon.

@kickarse: that's nice. i would love to see all possible command-line options regarding device handling (and not only) for rundll32.exe. I agree that your script does similar things, mine thou has a bit more configurable options. The problem is not to code the main features to make them work as it was already done by someone else (i got the idea to do it after seeing some .bat scripts and all the pyron work). I was just to demanding what i realy wanted to have. Also writting this program gave me a lot of inside knowledge on devices in windows as i had to read a lot to actually write it. So actually if i would like just to install drivers and nothing else i would pr obably use your script. But when i would want some 'configuration' then i would choose mine *EViL GRiN* Anyways i've been coding new features including DriverSigning On/Off since i know how to code it (or i think so in my head) plus the update of drivers option thanks to your addition (by giving me the command line that turned out to be very usefull!!). It's much easier to write things in small programs, problems starts when you try to put it all in one. You have to make it fool-proof and since many features actually can't work together you have to write many work around for those That's why it takes me so much time. Plus i am lazy coder! I'll give some new version soon hopefully.

I am in UK atm (which is +00) for couple of days (until all equipment arrives to Poland) and Poland is +01 hour. So it's 18:20 atm. My program removes devices with following Problem ID's: 1, 18,28,37 and 39. The list what each problem states can be found here. You can now force diffrent driver problems with diffrent problem id's to be removed by my program within [ADVANCED] field. On first page you got information how to do it but lemme quote it: Keep in mind that this settings OVERWRITE the builtin problem_ids so you have to include them if you want them removed aswell. I'm not sure what might be causing the issue with Domain Accounts vs Admin Local account, if both are in same Administrators group of course. Yeap i will be probably adding it as additional option in some next version!!! I think i have to redo some stuff and .ini changes. As for testing builds. Depends what you mean ? But usually to test build you have to bring it back from image Nothing else you can do. You can try disabling packing of image (which slowes down deployment heavily). Image gets larger but still deploys faster. Use fast USB 2.0 hdds to deploy image from or use fast/1000mbit server on 1000mbit nic based computers. Other then that i don't know mate

@kickarse: i see you haven't read correctly Devcon rescan only does Rescan of P&P and that basically means pressing the button in device manager and that's it. While the command you pasted and i checked it goes thru all devices in system and checks their INF's version and then compares to INF's that it has in DevicePath in Registry if it finds newever version of drivers it will update the system driver to new one!!!!!! This is very good news because some ppl wanted this!! and this might save me a lot of time at least for this feature. Just compare times of rundll32.exe (in TaskMgr). When you run devcon rescan it's just couple of seconds (if you don't have any devices that are unknown to system). With the code you posted (there's small typo thou in it, small letter D) it runs looong time and that's why i am preety sure it does what it does Edit: so either you misunderstood what command Devcon Rescan does (very simle task) and wanted it to do a lot more then it could or you haven't read correctly info i pasted

Wow, this seems to be nice command and actually i need to investigate this even more as this can add a lot functionality to my proggy if it realy does what this guys says.

Yes that's what i meant. If after you press that and windows will find new devices then it means my program didn't worked as it should (and then i can investigate why with additional information from you). If it doesn't find any devices then that means there were no devices removed by my program or the device is no longer available for the system (even thou it was removed, that can happen to USB or other devices that once were in the system and are no longer there so the system actually can't find them). What i need from you is to know the code of the problem, device that has that problem and your settngs in [ADVANCED] then i will be able to tell if it's my programs fault or it's wrong settings of program or the device is no longer in system (as in devices that start with ACPI and couple of others might be gone from system). I am unaware of that. What does that line do? Same thing like Devcon Rescan? Does it only re runs Plug & Play Rescan or does it do something more like finding the newest driver it can find in given path's and update all system drivers (even those that are already installed in system) to newest version? That would be preety nice and i could implement this in my app. Lemm know

@kickarse: you're right about the reboot i missused OR and should be AND in one place, i'll fix it. As for the plug_and_play i'll check it out. As for [LOG] you should remove those 2 fields from [iNFO]. the only way i see the message "No active plug & play process has been found after 15 seconds. Terminating." Even though it shows that it found a device and imports the registry devices inf folders. to be there when 'devcon rescan' or the process of finding new devices isn't running correctly or when there were no devices removed at all (this can happen as the tool might show you that the device has a problem of lets say 24) and it doesn't remove that (unless you specifically tell it to under the [ADVANCED] section). Maybe that was the problem here? If you are sure that the device was removed you could try going to device manager and pressing "rescan & redetect) and see if the device pops up there? If it does means my tool sucks Lemme know and i'll try to fix some nasty bugs i surely have included

Which devcon switch ? as in plug & play rescan ? There's no need for devcon to be included in the dir, it is attached with my program.

I will hopefully add it in next version with maybe few additional variables and checks for stability.

Here you go @oldo, that will be 200Euro's please. Hehe just kidding (/me dreams). I tried to make it as error proof as possible but i might have broken something. Added around 100 lines of code so excuse me As always report errors and I should fix them asap. Changelog for 0.7.2 - Added option to configure log files names/path to logfiles (check section [LOG]) - Changed config file format (please be advised on that!) - Changed programs icon This is example how it loooks. For more information how to use more of additional options check 1st post. [LOG] Logging_to_file=Yes Logging_option=Advanced Log_file_name=hardware.log Log_path=&ProgramDir DOWNLOAD REMOVED DUE TO BUG - Come check later.

oldo: gimme some time and it will be implemented hopefully i won't have destroy half of code to implement this. I'm planning some more things in future just it takes time as i am busy coding MultiCopier to be able to copy directory with files to multiple servers into same place (on those servers) for easy spreading of packages in Altiris Also i have lost some work that i did on addon for Hardware Installer that would create db of .inf files with corresponding HW_ID's so my program would read this and use only inf's that are nessecary to system and not all of them. This should speed up instalation process a lot. Anyway i'll start working on it again if i get some time.

Currently program tries to write file to same folder as the program starts from. If it can't do that (like on CD) it writes it to C:\ I can prolly implement it but what options would you like to see? As in where would you like to put the log file? Gimme some justification please ?

Zxian: i wouldn't say self promotion is bad as long as it hits the topic of the section. And in this case as the guy actually wants to promote drivers he did and to help the community. I would say go ahead and have the link here. ATI because of notebook manufacturers basically doesn't give users and option to use Catalyst drivers and with older laptops it's complicated to have drivers up to date. As i see it he wanted to help comunity by releasing his drivers? Shouldn;'t it be allowed. And he posted a link to external site as many of us do because MSFN isn't very friendly in terms on giving out space to users to post their programs on it, and in terms of drivers more space is required. So please bring back the link I'm sure ppl like me would like to have it

Are you using http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/ or the one for xp to create the pack? Or is it totally diffrent aproach?

How about enabling 'status' line in simple notepad/wordpad or any other free file editor and look there what line it is? Then it would be easier to help at all Each file can have diffrent stuff in that line so please be more specific.

Or you can use http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=70209 which works perfectly with Bashrat Driver Packs that will install drivers for you