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remove driver from 2k3000

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by mikeaaaaaaaaa9 1 view

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How can I manually (or otherwise) remove a driver for a device not physically in the unit? I installed a promise fast track raid controller card and it caused blue screen on boot so I fugured the card was bad and removed it. I bought a new IDE Controller extension and when I put the card in the pci slot, it blue screens (possibly cause they are similar products). When I remove the cards I can boot. How can I remove/rollback a driver that doesn't appear in devices because it is not connected?

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by freetechie

Drivers are located in the Registy at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum
or at Controlset001 or 002

I remember ENUM because in Windows 98/ME we would use it to completely wipe the drivers from the registry and windows would rebuild it. But it's Win2k3 so I wouldn't recommend. Go to the site that is for you old card and find it's PCI ID. This is a driver ID and will help you in getting rid of the sucker.

http://www.motherboard.windowsreinstall.com/win2k.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q249694

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