Registry entry removal

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About a year ago, I did a clean install of XP w/SP2. Among the hardware I
installed drivers for, a Silicon Image siL 0680 ATA 133 controller was
installed.

A few months later, I uninstalled using the add/remove programs entry for
same. Then, removed the same card from the motherboard PCI slot.

Afterwards, I installed a Promise Ultra 133 card which does what I want more
effectively.

For some reason, I inserted the Gigabyte installation CD. Forgot why.
Anyway, under its hardware tab, the Silicon Image card is still there. I
found some entries in the registry for it. Cannot delete them in regedit.
Additional info from the Gigabyte hardware info -
Vendor ID: 1095
Device ID: 4D69
Driver Ver: 2.0.0.43
Driver Date: 5-16-2002
Driver Provider: Silicon Image
There is NO entry in device manager for the Silicon Image ATA 133 card.

I also tried removing same registry entries in safe mode, no luck.

The card is made by SIIG.

How do I fix this BS without a clean install?

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Lil' Dave said:
About a year ago, I did a clean install of XP w/SP2. Among the hardware I
installed drivers for, a Silicon Image siL 0680 ATA 133 controller was
installed.

A few months later, I uninstalled using the add/remove programs entry for
same. Then, removed the same card from the motherboard PCI slot.

Afterwards, I installed a Promise Ultra 133 card which does what I want more
effectively.

For some reason, I inserted the Gigabyte installation CD. Forgot why.
Anyway, under its hardware tab, the Silicon Image card is still there. I
found some entries in the registry for it. Cannot delete them in regedit.
Additional info from the Gigabyte hardware info -
Vendor ID: 1095
Device ID: 4D69
Driver Ver: 2.0.0.43
Driver Date: 5-16-2002
Driver Provider: Silicon Image
There is NO entry in device manager for the Silicon Image ATA 133 card.

I also tried removing same registry entries in safe mode, no luck.

The card is made by SIIG.

How do I fix this BS without a clean install?
Click to expand...

Regedt32 might work where Regedit does not when it comes to certain
deletions of system files. Try it. But know which hive(s) to look in
for these entries.

Alternately, CCleaner might be able to do the job. But as with any
registry cleaner, use with care and take the opportunity to do a
backup prior to the changes.
 
Lil' Dave said:
About a year ago, I did a clean install of XP w/SP2. Among the hardware I
installed drivers for, a Silicon Image siL 0680 ATA 133 controller was
installed.

A few months later, I uninstalled using the add/remove programs entry for
same. Then, removed the same card from the motherboard PCI slot.

Afterwards, I installed a Promise Ultra 133 card which does what I want more
effectively.

For some reason, I inserted the Gigabyte installation CD. Forgot why.
Anyway, under its hardware tab, the Silicon Image card is still there. I
found some entries in the registry for it. Cannot delete them in regedit.
Additional info from the Gigabyte hardware info -
Vendor ID: 1095
Device ID: 4D69
Driver Ver: 2.0.0.43
Driver Date: 5-16-2002
Driver Provider: Silicon Image
There is NO entry in device manager for the Silicon Image ATA 133 card.

I also tried removing same registry entries in safe mode, no luck.

The card is made by SIIG.

How do I fix this BS without a clean install?
Click to expand...

The results are a little curious.

There is only one 4D69 in the file here.

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids

It is for Ultra133TX2.

Whereas, the 1095 is Silicon Image.

A SIL0680 should be "0680" for the Device part.

The Gigabyte info is claiming a mix of a Silicon Image Vendor number,
with a Promise Device number. How does that work ?

Also, the 0680 has a longer history than most chips. The company that
designed it, was CMD. And Silicon Image took over (don't know the
business details). Silicon Image may have spun a revision, after the
CMD version, bumping up the IDE interface rate. The only way I can
see Promise in the picture, is if they bought a Promise driver to
distribute with their chip. So you'd need to have a careful look at
the .INF file that you've installed, both for the 0680 card, and
for the Promise card. Something doesn't smell right.

Paul
 
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