Installed drivers, now problems

[jordanz]

I replaced a Phillips soundcard with a Soundblaster Live 5.1 soundcard. Installing the drivers for the soundblaster, and the setup goes extremely slow. Took 10 minutes, sat at 99%. So I ctrl+alt+del it's ass from annoyance. Nothing takes that long to load. So I reboot it, sound works as if drivers are perfectly installed. I re-install for assurance. I let it take the whole 10+ minutes to install, and what not. Figure it may be something wrong with my CD-Rom. I reboot the computer after install, and the cdrom isn't detected anymore (actually, windows say the drivers are corrupt/can't be loaded, but it is detected in BIOS) and the sound drivers are corrupt/won't load. Well, now I obviously can't re-install the drivers, no cdrom to do so.

Any suggestions? I pulled the soundcard out, reboot. Same result. Installed the MOBO sound drivers to attempt and use that. Same result.

 

[BadThad]

First off, yes, Creatives drivers from CDROM can easily take that long to install. Your CDROM is connect to the mobo, right? Did you try reseating the cable on both ends? What channel is the CDROM on? How is it jumpered?

 

[jordanz]

Never had anything take that long to install (other drivers included), so I figured a few driver files being copied were not going to take tat long. Yes, CDROM connected to Mobo. I did reseat the cable on both ends, but like I said, it only stopped working after installing the Soundblaster drivers. They became corrupt or something. And I tried uninstalling, but the uninstall file is corrupt, so it won't let me uninstall. I did manually go through and delete what I could find of the Soundblaster files though. It's jumpered as a master on channel 2. I'm only running 1 harddrive and 1 cdrom right now. One on each channel. And everything was fine before installing those drivers.

 

[BadThad]

What does device mgr show you? You could try removing the secondard IDE channel and rebooting. XP will redetect it and reinstall the driver.

 

[jordanz]

My device manager shows that "plug and play software device enumerator" is corrupt as well as any CDROM I connect. I googled that and came upon a couple people with the same problem. Trying to re-install the plug and play software device enumerator info and mostly not having good results. I'll probably end up with a re-format.