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how do I reinstall a system device?

Fosuco

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LOL... I feel like an idiot, but I will try to explain my situation. Here goes:

It all started today when I tried to install those new creative drivers ripped from the xp service pack which is yet to be released. After installing and rebooting, I am greeted with 16 colors of display goodness. I go to my device manager and I notice that there is a problem with my Geforce 4 4600. It says "device cannot start: code 10" so I go to rollback the creative drivers and *BOOM* BSOD. So I reboot and my display comes up fine... but my cdrom, sound card, etc doesn't. So I go into the device manager again and notice an error with a system device... it seems that the BSOD in the middle of the driver rollback somehow corrupted my "Plug and Play device enumerator". So I attempt to reinstall the driver... no luck. Rollback doesn't work either, so the next logical step in my head is to uninstall, reboot, and wait for xp to install it again. OOPS. No luck. So this is where I stand... without a Plug and Play device enumerator. Can anyone provide a bit of insight that would aid my situation? Thanks...

Fosuco
 
desperation bump...

oh, and the the device is called "Plug and play software device enumerator"

I really don't want to reformat... that would mean losing 150+ gigs of backup - (my system partition is on a raid 0 setup).
 
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