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Found New Hardware Problem

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Valaire

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Okay, my computer and all its hardware have been working fine for over a year, and I have not installed anything new within that time.

I was attempting to play Battlefield 2 yesterday with a voice chat program activated and I think the voice chat program was having some problems because I was getting some high ping. Eventually, I think, it caused me to freeze up in BF2, so I hard reset my computer.

Booting back into Windows XP SP2, I now have a found new hardware wizard popping up for a multimedia controller, and a multimedia video controller.

Dismayed, I checked the device manager, and I'm pretty sure they are my TV Tuner card, because I don't see them listed in the installed section. Both devices are on PCI Slot 4. I'm still confused as to how my crash uninstalled my tv tuner card, but I try to reinstall the drivers for them and it won't work. It's a Leadtek WinTV 2000, and they provide the inf files -- I have a folder with all the tv tuner device files, and when I point to it it won't detect that those are the correct drivers.

Also, my tv application works fine. It hasn't been effected.

So, now I have this pop up everytime I start windows for these 2 devices and I can't figure out a way to fix the problem or what the extent of the damage was.

Any ideas or has anyone else had this happen to them?
 
If it's not damaged hardware then it's likely registry damage.

Run a chkdsk /R on your system/boot drive.
Then use your most recent system restore point that was working.

 
Hmm, well I have system restore off (I find it unreliable). I have used a registry program recently, but have gone through several backups with no change in the new hardware. I guess I'll have to ignore it for now, but it pisses me off because I like to not having potential problems under the hood.

I am not sure if it was related to the registry program because I had gone through several reboots with no problem. This problem occured at the time my computer froze and I had to hard reset; I feel its related. However, no loss of TV tuner functionality thus far...
 
I can't recommend strongly enough that you turn system restore back on. It's one of the best features of XP.

 
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