How to unistall HW drivers in XP

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ROCK2003

I have a troublesome video capture card driver that I have been trying to
remove.
Somehow insatlling the driver has disabled my CD-ROM and crashes my system
each time WIndows tries to install it.

My question is this .. even though I have removed all references to the HW
in the device manager and removed the card itself ... XP still tries to
install the driver when I reboot. How do I stop this happening

Should I be looking in the registry - not being to experienced with regedit
I cant see anything that relates ?

Appreciate any suggestions.
 
Fire the machine up in safe mode. Launch a command prompt. Ignore any error
about running 16b stuff in safe mode you may get.
In the command prompt type

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

then hit enter.
Launch device manager (start->run->devmgmt.msc).
From the view pull down, select 'show hidden devices'.

Make sure there are no traces of the video card you're uninstalling. While
in there mark the CD-Rom as disabled and see if you can up normally. If you
can, then uninstall any application related to the video capture device,
reboot then attempt to enable the CD drive.

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Thanks Walter ... I solved my problem another way (by uninstalling an audio
driver that must of been conficting soemhow) was able to unisntall card
correctly then reinstall audio ... going to get a different capture card now
.... but this is useful information for future reference anyway.

Regards

Paul
 
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