WinXP Driver Upgrade Problems. Please help!

[unhuman]

I'm trying to upgrade two of my drivers - Hollywood Plus to version 2.3 and SiS AGP Port to v1.09.

The MB I have is an ECS K7S5A SiS 735 based board.

The problem I am having is that I am getting "unable to find specified file" at the end of the installs for the drivers... Needless to say, the installs fail and I am unable to use my Hollywood Plus board. Attempts to re-apply the same old version of the driver I had fail as well.

The AGP driver fails too, but fortunately, there is some other version of the chipset driver on the system, so I have at least some support.

Thanks for the help!

-Howie

 

[corkyg]

XP looks first for a relevant INF file and then SYS files that go with it. These files are often buried under some layers of folders, so you need to find them and be able to guide XP to them using the Browse function. This is not unique to XP, but to windows in general, and really shows how dumb the program really is.

Many times I have installed "new" hardware that has already been installed, and have led Windows to its own \SYSTEM and \SYSTEM32 folders where the drivers already existed. It really is a dumb OS in that regard.

 

[unhuman]

Thanks for helping...

Ok... Any ideas on how to target the right INF file? Sometimes they're lumped together - I remember having to do that where there was:
driverpak1.inf
driverpak2.inf
....
etc

The funny thing in this case is that Windows XP didn't find an inf file in its own folder.... This is just driving me nuts.

I recall that Windows 2k actually tells you which INF file it's gonna use before the install. Windows XP isn't so kind.

I hate this.

-H

 

[unhuman]

This didn't work.... I renamed every INF file to FNI and I still get the same error.

Is there any way to find out which file is problematic?

-Howie