Detonator woes...

[Ruroni]

I have a ti 4600. The day before yesterday I installed Detonator 52.16 on my computer. When I tried to play Quake 3 Arena my machine kept locking up (anytime I joined a server with PB enabled). Turns out the latest PB and detonator 5x.xx aer incompatible.

So in an effort to change my drivers I tried uninstalling 52.16 with the add and remove programs and Detonator RIP and Driver Cleaner 2. I tried a few times, and everytime my machine would reboot, and I would look at the driver properties, it kept telling me it had 52.16 installed.

Eventually I managed to remove the drivers, along with the card. The card never came back. I tried installing the 44.03 drivers but no luck. The card wouldn't even show up in in device manager. I tried "add hardware" button, and it shows the ti4600 with a question mark over it. When I select it and hit next I get an error message that reads:

Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)

And I have no chance to try to reinstall the drivers.

Steps I've taken to resolve:

1. 1) running the Detonator setup exe
   2) Remove the video card, boot up using a different card and then shutting down and reinstalling the TI4600
   3) System Restore
   4) Ran Registry Mechanic 2.01

None of these have resolved my problem. I imagine that reinstalling windows XP may fix my situation. But I've worked really hard for a really long time to get my system the way it is to just lose it all. I'd rather just use a different video card or something.

The reason I mind this situation is because I can't play Quake 3 Arena...

Thanks for taking the time read my post and thanks in advanced for replies.

 

[MichaelZ]

i had this problem. after using driver cleaner 2 the card is no longer detected for some reason. i formatted just so i could install my ti4800 with det 44.03's.

 

[Bucksnort]

 

[Jack4KickAss]

Had the same problem when I used DC 2 with my Nvidia card. I see the new version of DC has got fix for this. Don't know if it will work once you all ready used one of the older versions of DC 2. If that does not solve you problem then you going to have to reinstall windows and select to delete the old windows directory, or reformat.

 

[Ruroni]

Thanks for the replies guys.

What I ended up doing was removing the ti4600 and replacing it with a ti4200 i happen to own, then I installed the drivers for that one. It sort of worked. It wouldn't show up in the device manager but it did show up in display properties.

I then put the ti4600 and it didn't seem to notice i had changed cards, so I resintalled the nForce drivers. Then I notice that it still didn't show in the Device manager but it did in the display properties, and from there I simply change the detonators to 44.03 (instead of 52.16 since they cause tconflict with PunkBuster in Q3A).

It still doesn't show in device manager but it is in Display properties and it seems to be working as it is supposed to, so I will leave it at that. I don't want to format and reinstall... TOO much work, and I have other things I should be doing.

Again, thanks for the replies, I apprecaite it.

 

[BenSkywalker]

Check to see if your nForce AGP drivers are still there, and are you viewing by device type or by connection in Device Manager?

 

[Ruroni]

Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
Check to see if your nForce AGP drivers are still there, and are you viewing by device type or by connection in Device Manager?

Where would I check/see for the nForce AGP drivers? (wouldn't having installed the nForce drivers automatically put those back on, if they were to have been missing)


I was viewing Device by type, but since you mentioned, I looked at Device by connection as well, and neither show AGP drivers OR My display adaptor.

 

[Pudgygiant]

I love love love the omega 45.23 drivers, I get such kickass gameplay (at least from my vid card. damn value RAM.)

 

[BenSkywalker]

wouldn't having installed the nForce drivers automatically put those back on, if they were to have been missing

Driver cleaning programs can hose your nForce AGP drivers, I've stopped using them because of this(have run in to similar problems myself, every time I've used them actually, which hasn't been too often). More then likely in your attempt to kill the Det 52.16s, the apps also killed your GART drivers.

I was viewing Device by type, but since you mentioned, I looked at Device by connection as well, and neither show AGP drivers OR My display adaptor.

I'd remove your nForce drivers, install the Dets you want to use, then reinstall your nForce drivers.

 

[Ruroni]

Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
I'd remove your nForce drivers, install the Dets you want to use, then reinstall your nForce drivers.

I removed them, and then When windows booted up, it went for the motherboard first. And so I installed the Motherboard drivers component by component (nForce 3.13), shortly after installing all the different drivers for the motherboard, the video card was again detected, and it was instaled. It actually went back to the Detonator 52.16!!! But I did a driver updated and replaced it with the 44.03. I had to click "yes" to overwriting the newer drivers, but all went well.

As a side note, on Windows update page they have a display driver. And it's the 52.16!!! (which continue to case conflict with PB in Q3A). I had to re-install the 44.03. But at least all is working well, and I can join and play in Q3A servers that have PB enabled.

I'm very happy I was able to resolve without having to format and perform a clean install!

Thanks again for the replies. I very much appreciate them.