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No sound, Creative Labs, WinME (ATTN: Mart & Noel Paton)
Guys,
I've tried and tried on this sound card thing, but I'm getting nowhere fast. Can you tell me why windows wants to keep installing a WDM driver automatically when it's installed? How can I stop this? I've tried the solution of turning off the pnp.drv option in system.ini as described in the following Microsoft support article... http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;194721 but this hasn't worked either. Doug |
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No sound, Creative Labs, WinME (ATTN: Mart & Noel Paton)
Maybe this is the clue - are you SURE that your sound card AND its drivers
are **FULLY** WinMe compatible? I suspect that you may either have to settle for the MS WDM drivers or a compromise. Several manufactures (pre-WinMe) sound cards were never completely compatible with WinMe and WinMe doesn't always like the bundled software supplied with 'older' sound cards or the way the manufacturer 'tried' to install the drivers. I had a Creative AWE64 Gold (top of the range that I bought a couple of years before WinMe was released) which was great with 95 & 98 but would never completely install properly with WinME. WDM drivers were almost 'forced' on me and a compromise had to be reached in making it work satisfactorily with loss of bundled utilities. It never worked as well under WinMe. Go back to my previous advice:- "You could try (physically) removing the new card and (cold) booting *several* times - checking, each time for oddments/remnants in Device Manager, again to help flush things out. It might also be worth searching your system for all 'redundant' Creative and previous sound cards' files (look also in the Windows\ini folder and sub-folders)." Then install the drivers ONLY - don't attempt to install the Bundled Software. (When you replace the card, don't run the setup.exe files but point the (PnP) installation Wizard to the folder containing the .inf file and associated driver files.) It should then 'see' the .inf file and complete the drivers-only installation. HTH Mart "Doug" wrote in message ... Guys, I've tried and tried on this sound card thing, but I'm getting nowhere fast. Can you tell me why windows wants to keep installing a WDM driver automatically when it's installed? How can I stop this? I've tried the solution of turning off the pnp.drv option in system.ini as described in the following Microsoft support article... http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;194721 but this hasn't worked either. Doug |
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No sound, Creative Labs, WinME (ATTN: Mart & Noel Paton)
But how do I stop the automatic plug and play? When I cold reboot, it
automatically looks for a WDM driver. Doug "Mart" wrote in message ... Maybe this is the clue - are you SURE that your sound card AND its drivers are **FULLY** WinMe compatible? I suspect that you may either have to settle for the MS WDM drivers or a compromise. Several manufactures (pre-WinMe) sound cards were never completely compatible with WinMe and WinMe doesn't always like the bundled software supplied with 'older' sound cards or the way the manufacturer 'tried' to install the drivers. I had a Creative AWE64 Gold (top of the range that I bought a couple of years before WinMe was released) which was great with 95 & 98 but would never completely install properly with WinME. WDM drivers were almost 'forced' on me and a compromise had to be reached in making it work satisfactorily with loss of bundled utilities. It never worked as well under WinMe. Go back to my previous advice:- "You could try (physically) removing the new card and (cold) booting *several* times - checking, each time for oddments/remnants in Device Manager, again to help flush things out. It might also be worth searching your system for all 'redundant' Creative and previous sound cards' files (look also in the Windows\ini folder and sub-folders)." Then install the drivers ONLY - don't attempt to install the Bundled Software. (When you replace the card, don't run the setup.exe files but point the (PnP) installation Wizard to the folder containing the .inf file and associated driver files.) It should then 'see' the .inf file and complete the drivers-only installation. HTH Mart "Doug" wrote in message ... Guys, I've tried and tried on this sound card thing, but I'm getting nowhere fast. Can you tell me why windows wants to keep installing a WDM driver automatically when it's installed? How can I stop this? I've tried the solution of turning off the pnp.drv option in system.ini as described in the following Microsoft support article... http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;194721 but this hasn't worked either. Doug |
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No sound, Creative Labs, WinME (ATTN: Mart & Noel Paton)
I didn't think that you could 'stop the automatic plug and play'. AFAIK,
WinMe will always 'automatically look' for a driver - any driver - until or unless it is satisfied that one is installed. As I implied in my last post - when you replace the card, don't run the setup.exe files but point the (PnP) installation Wizard to the folder (on the manufacturers CD or 'exploded' download) containing the .inf file and associated driver files.) It should then 'see' the .inf file and complete the drivers-only installation. I know that I've asked before but! Are you sure that you have the correct WinMe Drivers? Have you looked on the Creative Labs site? There are drivers available from there. Also take a look at "System Sounds May Not Work After Upgrading to Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 98 Second Edition" http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;241092 In fact have look on the MS Knowledge Base for issues with sound cards and WinMe. Both WinMe and Creative Labs SB Live! 5.1 are both past their 'sell by' date and are no longer supported, so you may never find an 'official' solution. Did you get any further with remming the various lines in system.ini? Really out of new ideas now! Mart "Doug" wrote in message ... But how do I stop the automatic plug and play? When I cold reboot, it automatically looks for a WDM driver. Doug "Mart" wrote in message ... Maybe this is the clue - are you SURE that your sound card AND its drivers are **FULLY** WinMe compatible? I suspect that you may either have to settle for the MS WDM drivers or a compromise. Several manufactures (pre-WinMe) sound cards were never completely compatible with WinMe and WinMe doesn't always like the bundled software supplied with 'older' sound cards or the way the manufacturer 'tried' to install the drivers. I had a Creative AWE64 Gold (top of the range that I bought a couple of years before WinMe was released) which was great with 95 & 98 but would never completely install properly with WinME. WDM drivers were almost 'forced' on me and a compromise had to be reached in making it work satisfactorily with loss of bundled utilities. It never worked as well under WinMe. Go back to my previous advice:- "You could try (physically) removing the new card and (cold) booting *several* times - checking, each time for oddments/remnants in Device Manager, again to help flush things out. It might also be worth searching your system for all 'redundant' Creative and previous sound cards' files (look also in the Windows\ini folder and sub-folders)." Then install the drivers ONLY - don't attempt to install the Bundled Software. (When you replace the card, don't run the setup.exe files but point the (PnP) installation Wizard to the folder containing the .inf file and associated driver files.) It should then 'see' the .inf file and complete the drivers-only installation. HTH Mart "Doug" wrote in message ... Guys, I've tried and tried on this sound card thing, but I'm getting nowhere fast. Can you tell me why windows wants to keep installing a WDM driver automatically when it's installed? How can I stop this? I've tried the solution of turning off the pnp.drv option in system.ini as described in the following Microsoft support article... http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;194721 but this hasn't worked either. Doug |
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