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Name: Andy11
Hello again.
I have a frustrating problem. My network adapter had new drivers, so I D/L'ed 'em and installed them instead of the original drivers on the CD-ROM. Now I am getting lousy signals. I would like to uninstall the drivers and install the ones from the CD. However, every time I uninstall the driver and try to restore them, Windows automatically restores the drivers it used before-the newer ones. I tried installing from the CD, but it STILL wouldn't use the older drivers. What do I do? How do I "reset" the drivers? And, yes, I tried uninstalling.
Thanks in advance.
And, this post is completely seperate from the "DVD--pausing..." one. Please don't get confused between both posts--just respond to each individually.
Thanks. =)
-Andrew
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Try this. open the device in device manager, double click it, drivers, driver details and write down the driver names. Then uninstall it and search for the drivers and delete them. reboot and install from the cd.
Please post back within 24 hours or I will delete the post from my follow up list. Thanks. It would be a courtesy if you would post back and let us know if the fix worked or not.
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Better yet, rename them just in case you need them.
Please post back within 24 hours or I will delete the post from my follow up list. Thanks. It would be a courtesy if you would post back and let us know if the fix worked or not.
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After making note of the drivers from device manager, go to Windows\System32\Dllcache and delete them. Rename SP1 or SP2 ever which one you have or both in Windows\Driver Cache\i386. Then uninstall. Reboot, load your drivers. You may get a message to insert your XP, SP1, SP2 CD to restore the files. Don't do it. Click on Cancel and then click on Yes on the dialog box to keep unrecognized file versions. Deleting copies of the XP SP1, SP2's driver files from the DLLCache folder will prevent System File Protection from restoring those files as long as the sp1, sp2.cab file is not present. If the sp1 sp2.cab file from the Driver Cache\i386 folder exists, then XP's system file protection will restore the files regardless whether or not copies of the driver files are deleted from the DLLcahce folder
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First off, do you a Windows\Driver Cache\i386 with SP2 cab in it? If so do
as Per suggested in response number 3 first(this is with your network card installed with the drivers you don't want of course) then do as I suggested in response number 5. In my situation, after SP2 was downloaded and installed it upgraded my modem drivers just so it could label them as WHQL and in the process cut my connection speed down from 42.6(good for my area) to 26.4. So I needed to get my older drivers back on but everytime I tried, it kept loading SP2 drivers. So I wrote down the files the modem had listed in device manager(all of them listed under driver file details) and then did what I suggested you do in response number 5.
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