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Old December 7th 08, 03:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
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Default 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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