non camera USB device driver problem solved by clean install

non camera USB device driver problem solved by clean install
I am trying to install the driver for a USB device on one computer and it consistently claims "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware." I have uninstalled libusb and every other USB device driver and eventually even went through the registry like a wild man with a machete removing anything that looked like it could be causing the problem. Yeah, the install instructions said to install the software before connecting the hardware, and I didn't. Surely that hasn't caused irreversible inability to get driver installed, do you suppose? In any case, I was able to install the driver just fine on another computer, but that just will not do. ....going to go with a clean install darn it anyhow.

try seeing if the device was installed in your registry as a "usb composite device" or something of the effect. plug in the device, locate it in the device manager by the vid-pid pair in the inf, and see if you can "update it" to the proper driver, force it through the "bad driver match", and see if that works. of course, you can also roll back your machine to the date before you plugged the thing in, do the installation, then move forward. but i know that when i touch a windows xp machine, first thing i do is disable that parasitic system restore, so ymmv.

Yeah, I don't have system restore turned on. Looks like I am going to have to back up all documents and clone the drive from a computer that is working and then restore backed up documents.

Have you tried to update the driver through device manager or uninstall it. I bet windows put and incorrect driver in it's place and is some how prohibiting the install of the correct driver.

plug in the device, locate it in the device manager by the vid-pid pair in the inf, and see if you can "update it" to the proper driver, force it through the "bad driver match", and see if that works. deja vu? --smile--

Have you tried to update the driver through device manager or uninstall it. I bet windows put and incorrect driver in it's place and is some how prohibiting the install of the correct driver. Yeah I tried it all and multiple times. I was going to clone the working computer, but it is on SP1 and I was having trouble making a bootable PE CD that would allow me to ghost from the drive to a network share. Instead I am going to do a clean install. I slipstreamed SP3 with nLite and am waiting for it to finish so I can burn a new install CD. Thanks for the suggestions. Anyone know any reason to NOT use SP3? (other than the fact that Microsoft makes it)

--raises hand-- because micr... ... --puts hand down--

Anyone know any reason to NOT use SP3? (other than the fact that Microsoft makes it) A fundamental tenant of Defensive Computing is not to install newly released software. With Windows XP SP3, the reason to wait is software incompatibilities. Even though SP3 has underdone much -*test*-('")ing, it's a big world and there are bound to be problems with some software. By waiting, you let everyone else find and fix the problems before you face them. http://www.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9929300-33.html Makes sense. I think I'm gonna hold off. I have enough problems, I don't need any problems from M$ right now. Eventually something will come up and I will need to install it, assuming a haven't ditched xp 32 bit for... (not vista) dual boot xp 64bit and fedora(8 or 9) x86_64. I just set up a raid 5 1.5 TB server on Fedora 8 x86_64 the other day. Running very well so far.

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