seafarer
October 26th, 2004, 12:21 PM
Hi,
(Sorry for the long posting - I'm trying to give detailed information!)
I'm running win98SE. I installed a wireless USB interface seemingly without issue last night. While configuring the wireless router via its web interface my PC blue-screened ("system has become unstable"). Upon reboot it reported issues with the graphics card (Matrox Millenium G550) saying there is a problem with the driver and/or adapter settings. The CD drives are no longer recognised by Windows. Looking in Device Manager shows very few bits of hardware (basically there's a bunch under "System devices", a blank entry under "display adapter", and nothing else - no USB, no sound/multimedia, no floppy drive, etc).
This probably isn't hardware-related because I can boot into Linux (machine is dual-boot) and everything seems to work OK. From Linux I can copy files from a CD onto the HDD so it is possible to try (re)installing drivers.
I would just reinstall windows but I have a bunch of music in Sony's OpenMG software (for a minidisc player) and if I don't check the tunes in from my MDs before re-building the machine it'll cause problems. This connects via USB - I have tried to install USB driver without success (the driver appears to install but the software doesn't work). I have tried to reinstall the gfx driver too, similarly without success. Booting into safe-mode doesn't seem to help either.
I have uninstalled the wireless USB interface driver.
Any ideas for how I might get USB working (or even better fix the problem entirely?)
Cheers for your time,
Seafarer
(Sorry for the long posting - I'm trying to give detailed information!)
I'm running win98SE. I installed a wireless USB interface seemingly without issue last night. While configuring the wireless router via its web interface my PC blue-screened ("system has become unstable"). Upon reboot it reported issues with the graphics card (Matrox Millenium G550) saying there is a problem with the driver and/or adapter settings. The CD drives are no longer recognised by Windows. Looking in Device Manager shows very few bits of hardware (basically there's a bunch under "System devices", a blank entry under "display adapter", and nothing else - no USB, no sound/multimedia, no floppy drive, etc).
This probably isn't hardware-related because I can boot into Linux (machine is dual-boot) and everything seems to work OK. From Linux I can copy files from a CD onto the HDD so it is possible to try (re)installing drivers.
I would just reinstall windows but I have a bunch of music in Sony's OpenMG software (for a minidisc player) and if I don't check the tunes in from my MDs before re-building the machine it'll cause problems. This connects via USB - I have tried to install USB driver without success (the driver appears to install but the software doesn't work). I have tried to reinstall the gfx driver too, similarly without success. Booting into safe-mode doesn't seem to help either.
I have uninstalled the wireless USB interface driver.
Any ideas for how I might get USB working (or even better fix the problem entirely?)
Cheers for your time,
Seafarer