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ARGH! Can't install Touch Screen Drivers!!!! Help me and my sanity...!
Hoopz:
It's been a while since I've seen this but go to Start - Control Panel - System - Advanced Tab - Settings - Default Operating System. It should show two XPs there. Delete the one that isn't the default and it should work.
Or wipe the hole hard drive and repartition it.
Give us details on what you bought. Make/model/price etc. Please. :)
orion:
Glad you found the drivers for it! :)
slapaham:
Cheers everyone! :)
Some more info about the panel can be found here - well worth the money in my opinion - very responsive and pretty cheap. TERRIBLE software disc that doesn't work but if you follow what I said before you shouldn't have any problems and should be away in a matter of minutes (which is what I should have been but instead I have been messing around with it for about 10 hours now!) -
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=97337.0
I re-installed Windows AGAIN - I deleted the one partition that I hadn't before and that seems to have done the trick... looks like I'm pretty much sorted now - just got to mess about installing all the OS updates, drivers, software, etc from scratch. I can't complain - I love having a completely blank canvas to work on and now that I've reformatted and reinstalled I've got just that! It also sorted out a few problems such as networking that I was suffering on the original install. Also get rid of some tat that couldn't be fully uninstalled.
Next step is to modify the existing monitor case as it doesn't fit (boo!) over the panel. Had a feeling that would happen but it's not anyone or anything's fault. :badmood:
Then after that, configuring the software (shouldn't take too long!) and adding the music/album covers to the jukebox (dammit! that will take an age as I encoded all my mp3s on an external Mac HDD - any suggestions of transferring these over to PC? :timebomb:)
Hoopz:
Can you share some details about how the installation went? I did see your other thread but wanted some real comments if you can please. Easy to do? Any issues that you found? Looking back, would you do anything differently?
slapaham:
Kind of summed it up really. The touchscreen panel is very good from what I've experienced so far. The software provided with it on CD-R was terrible - a real, confusing mess that didn't work anyway! The files that I mentioned above were easy to download through translating the website through Google - small file, zipped. Unzipped it, clicked it, connected touchscreen via USB and it recognised it following installation. Simple program to calibrate it - just need to touch some X's on the screen. Simple options, like speed, sounds, etc. Not much to it but the essentials and that's all you need!
Whole process takes about 3 minutes. No need to do it again - seems to save it to the touch screen PCB.
All in all, very good but you need to follow the above instructions otherwise you'll have a differing opinion! :P
Also - take note - this isn't 1mm in depth - more like 2-2.5mm - it's not thick but neither is it as thin as you might think... I'm going to have to either modify or build a frame for the monitor now. :badmood:
I would definitely recommend this - I didn't think I would be saying that but so far I've had no problems (other than the ---smurfy--- CDR) and it has performed well above my expectations - simple, accurate and hard wearing (I accidentally dropped a USB mouse on it earlier from quite a height and it didn't cause any kind of damage whatsoever!)