Hi!
Okay, I made a mistake installing some audio drivers on my MIL’s computer (long story). I managed to pick the drivers from the wrong directory from the driver disc, and installed Vista drivers. I identified my mistake, but now XP won’t let me remove the drivers. Does anyone have any suggestions?
uninstall the device from “device manager” by selecting the device and pressing delete. It should ask you if you want to remove drivers, too. Click yes (or delete or whatever). Then simply reinstall the device as intended.
If the drivers don’t show up in Device Manager then you may have to follow this procedure to show non-present devices.
The audio device shows up in device manager just fine (along with audio and video codecs, etc.). I know how to remove it from device manager, but when I try to delete it, it tells me that the device (which is just an audio card) is necessary for basic Windows function and cannot be removed. I’m seriously concerned that I will have to re-load the O/S from scratch to fix this.
Why are you trying to remove them? Is it causing a fault? If so, what’s the fault?
Yep - it’s causing a fault - no audio! And a little exclamation-point in the device manager next to the entry for the audio card.
Oh. That usually means it’s the wrong driver for the product. It happens. Go to the manufacturer’s website and download the latest XP drivers. Should fix the issue.
ETA: “It happens” means that sometimes they don’t print updated driver CD’s and new Windows updates or something come out and screw things up. Don’t worry about the old ones, just get the new ones from the web.