how to remove drivers (USB problem) .....
I have a 98SE platform which is very stable and running well. It has two
on-board USB1.1 ports and a PCI-based USB2.0 add-on. This all works well with thumb drives, cameras, scanners, etc etc. Into this picture of sanity and serenity I introduce an MP3 player. Connected initially on a USB1.1 port, Windoze detects the device, searches AND LOCATES a recommended driver. Driver installed, 98SE says "operative after a reboot". After a reboot, no sign of the device when plugged in. Device runs happily on USB as a power source, but PC is oblivious to its presence - expected to see a new drive (as I do with thumb drives) but WinExplorer shows nothing. Next, found the driver mini-CD that belongs with the MP3 player. Start it, select "Install WIn98 Drivers" and it just does a fraction of a second HDD activity then nothing. Plug MP3 into a USB2 port and the player shows a screen with a picture of an MP3 player connected to a PC, so *it* is in PC-connect mode. But again, the PC is oblivious to the player's presence. I have the native USB driver here, but its first instruction is to remove all existing USB drivers. I'm sort of loathe to go that path as it was quite a convoluted sequence to get all the existing (pre-MP3) ports/drivers set up to percolate smoothly as they were doing. Which raises the obvious question - short of removing all USB references in ControlPanel-System-DeviceManager, how DO you actually remove a driver when you suspect a wrong one is loaded and causing an issue? I'd certainly like as a first step to remove the ones currently assigned to this MP3 device, as they are causing 98SE to comfortably do exactly zip when the device is attached. |
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