SYSTEM RESTORE/AARK CARD/ new xp drivers

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someone suggest that i do a clean install because I'm having trouble getting the new xp drivers for the arrk 24/96 to work
i correctly go through the install process but when it's done a yellow exclamation point still shows up on the card in my device manager
the direct pro manager with the little aardvark guy shows up on my desktop now but when i click on it a message "control panel error. no aardvark cards found in system comes up"
what gives....
so i tried to do a system restore but no matter what date I picked when the computer restared the scree would say "could not restore system to January 6, 2002" i tried several dates including one restore point just a few days ago and it would work. I just want to clean the system back to the way it was when i got the pc and I can't even do that...please help
 
What chipset/motherboard do you have?

Had you installed the beta drivers?

Queue
 
not i hadn't tried the beta drivers, but i did originally try installing the drivers that came with the card, which where for win98 or something i guess
i also ran that aarkremove program that is supposed to clean everything old out
i'm not sure about my chipset or motherboard...how do i find that info out
 
PIPEDOPE said:
not i hadn't tried the beta drivers, but i did originally try installing the drivers that came with the card, which where for win98 or something i guess
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Ok, thats a real good way to screw things up in XP! I also suggest you wipe your HD drive clean and re-install everything. I'd say your system is beyond repair right now.
 
And get yerself a copy of Ghost, it is so awesome once you learn the ropes. Install didn't work? Where's that image of my "clean OS install" with all my drivers and other stuff working? Poof! Mistakes gone, try again.

remember when you were a kid and you had "do overs"?

Queue
 
OKAY So , like i was saying before the system restore isn't working...should i uninstall windows and re install it?
what do you mean clean off the hard drive?
 
should i uninstall windows and re install it?
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that is what he means by "clean off the hard drive"

REFORMAT/REPARTITION the drive and start fresh.

System Restore works (sometimes). If you use Ghost, it works all the time at restoring your drive to EXACTLY the way it was. (This may mean you lose some things (basically everything you did since you made the Ghost image)).

It isnt the easiest to use, but it is truly an awesome tool when used properly.

Queue
 
thanks Queue,

i realize it's probably something like the bad drivers i tried that screwed everything up.
i'll have to figure out how i remove and reinstall everything. I'm so close and when i saw tha cotrol panle error i flipped out. i've waited so long for these drivers they are finally out and i'm still not recording
where can i find this Ghost program?
 
Queue is 100% right about Ghost. It saves me huge amounts of time everyday at both my regular job (PC support) and home stuff (PC recording). There is another program called Drive Image that does the same thing, but I've been using Ghost for awhile and like it.
Be advised that the best way to use Ghost to make an image of your whole system drive, and it needs somewhere to write that image. So all my systems have a smaller boot/system hard disk and a larger data drive. That way you can write the Ghost from C: over to D: in 650 chunks, then later move them to CDRs. Ghost also works better if you boot the system up from a floppy (like a Win98 startup disk) so that the Windows system is inactive and all files are closed.

If you do decide to go this way, I would make a couple of Ghost images:
1) As soon as you get XP installed
2) After you install all XP patches/critical updates, plus hardware drivers
3) After you install all the apps you will commonly use

This is just in case you find out weeks later that some driver you installed before #2, or app you installed before #3, is causing a conflict. Having these backups saves HUGE amounts of time.

As of yet I have never been able to get the driver rollback "feature" in XP to work, it ways just tells me "you cant do this" or "there is no roll back available" or some BS. I've pretty much concluded that it is just hype.
 
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