Removing VIA USB card drivers

[Charlie98]

I'm pulling my HooToo USB3 add-on card and need to remove all the VIA drivers installed. I've had issues before uninstalling the VIA drivers... and I don't really want to bork this up, again...

Here's what's left:



...can I just delete those files without problems?

 

[inachu]

You might be able to but are you sure those are for the USB3 card? It is better to go to device manager and find it in there and uninstall it from there in proper form or your system might not boot.

Is the goal here to reinstall it? Did you build the pc yourself

 

[Charlie98]

You might be able to but are you sure those are for the USB3 card? It is better to go to device manager and find it in there and uninstall it from there in proper form or your system might not boot.

Is the goal here to reinstall it? Did you build the pc yourself

Yes... DESK in sig below. I've had problems with the VIA drivers before, I'm pulling it and replacing it with a card using a Renesas chipset. I did use device manager to uninstall the drivers, but it always seems like there are leftovers... 😱

 

[denis280]

with this Charlie. and uninstall all ghost for your divice only.

From Bubbaleone

Open Notepad and copy/paste the following:

set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1
start devmgmt.msc

Name the file "setdev.bat", and save it to the Desktop as "All files" (not text document [*.txt]). Double-click setdev.bat and it opens an advanced MSC version of Device Manager. Select; View>>Devices by type>>Show hidden devices. You will now be able to see every single device that has ever been installed on your current Windows installation.

This view includes all currently installed devices, and all devices no longer installed or connected (non-existent). All the icons for non-existent devices will be "ghosted" (semi-translucent, pale gray color).

Starting at the top and working your way down the list ( click every + sign to expand each device), right-click each installed device icon, and each ghosted device icon and select "Uninstall".

Ignore any prompts to reboot the PC. When you're completely finished uninstalling all currently installed devices, as well as all non-existent devices, shutdown the computer, then remove the hard drive. It's now ready to install onto new hardware.

 

[Charlie98]

Thanks, Denis... working with it now.

You do have to run the .bat as Administrator, just FYI, otherwise the ghost files don't show up.

 

[Ketchup]

Make sure there isn't a service associated with it before you delete it, although if the service is running it wouldn't let you anyway. Conversely, if there is not service or related hardware still using it, there shouldn't be any real need to remove it.

 

[Charlie98]

Make sure there isn't a service associated with it before you delete it, although if the service is running it wouldn't let you anyway. Conversely, if there is not service or related hardware still using it, there shouldn't be any real need to remove it.

All I'm really worried about is the VIA drivers (and, now just this AM, the NVidia drivers... 😱 but that is another problem) because I've had such an issue with them before. I want to make sure they are completely gone before I install the Resneas drivers.

The 'ghost' thing worked from what I can see. It allowed me to nuke the VIA drivers, and a few others that I knew were redundant or EOL... but I'm very careful not to just start deleting drivers that may not be in use at this particular moment. ()🙂

 

[denis280]

The 'ghost' thing worked from what I can see.

this is really helpfull i use it all the time

 

[Charlie98]

this is really helpfull i use it all the time

It sure seems to be... I have it stashed in my PC toolbox, now. 😀