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| Howard_Casto:
I had a similar problem with my matrox card. Here is the issue (most likely): Xp has a database of a lot of popular drivers and it notifies itself when new ones are out. Unfortunately it has some sort of logic error that DOES let windows update know when a driver is outdated (and thus xp dumps the driver) but DOES NOT allow xp to install insigned drivers via windows update. So what happens is windows finds an updated, unsinged driver upon bootup (via the internet or it's internal database) and it runs fine upon frist boot, but windows sends an update notification upon reboot (or in the case of usb drivers, re-connection). Xp can't automatically install unsigned drivers, so all that happens is the drivers get uninstalled and you get a "driver is out of date" error. The solution is to go to the manufacturers website and manually download and install the driver, allowing the unsigned driver when prompted. Make sure you don't use the automatic serach feature, or windows update to install them or it won't stick. If a recent enough driver isn't available, unfortunately there isn't a way to fix the problem. Hope that helps. |
| trcroyle:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on June 19, 2006, 11:01:36 am ---Xp can't automatically install unsigned drivers, so all that happens is the drivers get uninstalled and you get a "driver is out of date" error. --- End quote --- I have a registry hack that allows automatic installation of unsigned drivers. I'll try adding it ans see if it fixes the issue. |
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