Windows not accepting drivers on '98

[Azalie]

Alright i have a compaq presario 4090US With windows ME

Just reformatted.. put Windows 98 on it..
installing drivers... it wont take my sound driver...


On compaq's site it's an exe..

I install it, and it says must reboot to continue.. i hit reboot..

it comes up with the windows' "found new hardware, need driver" thing..

i hit next, next, etc.. It wont take the EXE, it wants an INF file

so i GUESS i need an INF of ADI 1881 Soundmax II..

or a way to extract the INF from the exe.. or something..

I dont know.. anyone know anything that might work?


Thanks so much, the compaq support people arent helping at all, lol.


They said something about needing a GRAPHICS chipset for the SOUND driver.. i installed it, and it did absolutely nothing >.<

~Cait

[classicsoftware]

When you run the EXE, what happens. It should install the driver. Is the driver specifically for 98?

[Azalie]

It's for 98 and ME..


I run the exe:

It installs... says it needs to reboot..

I reboot.. then windows' "I NEED DRIVERS" screen comes up, I dont have the INF file it wants, so i hit cancel...

And no sound drivers :| (thought i said that? XD)

if i dont get anything helpfull from here, ill just switch back to ME..

There's no use goin to 98 when you cant even use your hardware! >_<

[classicsoftware]

Please see if you can see where the install program places the drivers and point the New Hardware wizard to that location

[123456]

Install WinRAR, then right click the .exe of your driver and hit "Extract here."

[Azalie]

I know my computer and the files on it like the back of my hand, and the driver puts NOTHING on it..

I have WinRAR installed and am quite familiar with it.. Where the HECK did you get the idea you can extract EXE's with it? o_O
Maybe it's some crazy Windows XP thing, I dont know... But with 98 and Me I don't have the ability to do that.


But here's the page drivers are located on...

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=20&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=92635&lang=en


And here's a link to the driver itself.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=34693&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&os=20&product=92635&lang=en

Perhaps you can extract it for me? lol.

The only thing that happens when i install it, is.. there's a directory created here:

C:\WIN98\TEMP\CDMInst

but there's absolutely nothing in it..


Thanks

~Cait

[mjc]

OK, first slow down a little...

The exe from Compaq is most likely a self-extracting archive file with a bundled 'setup' program...the first thing it will do is to extract itself to that temp directory you have found. Now what you need to do, is to Alt-Tab out of the installer and investigate the contents of that directory while the installer is still running, before you reboot. Most installers clean up after themselves, so that is why you are finding an empty directory...so you will need to copy the contents of the temp directory BEFORE the installer completes. Then when you reboot, and Windows goes searching for the file you can redirect it to the copy you made.

Some driver packages have the command line option to just extract the package...open a command prompt in the directory the exe is in and type the file name.exe followed by a /?...it should list any command line options.

[Azalie]

Uhms.. yeah it's not a fullscreen installer and i do go to explorer and that directory is empty at all times..

Ok i watched it during installation.. and CDwhatever WASNT the directory it created...

It created: _ISTMP7.DIR

and the files that were in it.. were in it briefly.. then erased..

I captured them..

none of them seem to be any use...

http://aycu40.webshots.com/image/23679/2004150962229460140_rs.jpg


Ok i opened the prompt and put /? and all it did was act like i clicked on it.. trying to install again.

another site suggested putting -a -a -p

i also tried that and it also just acted like i clicked on it.

[Fruss Tray Ted]

Try this one (http://www.drv.4pc.info/drivers/files/sp17279.exe) see if you get the same results.

[Sylvander]

Just fixed a similar problem, so this may help. :)

1. Fitted a new hardware item [a scanner] not previously fitted to this newly installed Win2000Pro.

2. Windows detected the scanner had just been connected and asked for a driver, which I couldn't give. SO I was offered 2 options and chose to have the scanner shown as an "Unknown Device".

3. Found the driver safely tucked away in a folder on a partition on my external USB HDD.
It was an exe file, so I ran that and the driver was installed.
i.e. The driver files were written to their appointed locations.
In this case the all important inf file [600CUusd.inf] was placed within the "C:\WINNT\inf" folder.
I searched the C: partition for files including the text = Mustek and found a small list of inf files including that particular file.

4. Yet the device was still "Unknown" within "Device Manager".

5. So I used "Update Driver" and the resulting wizard to [search for a suitable driver and] point to that inf file within the "C:\WINNT\inf" folder.
When I clicked OK, that specific file was not listed; instead the wizard set about searching ALL inf files within that folder.

6. The wizard reported finding a suitable driver, I gave it the OK, and that was successfully installed.
The device was now no longer shown as "unknown". :)

[Sylvander]

Yet another experience [that may be of interest] of re-installing the same Mustek driver [I'd restored an image made before the other installation of the driver and needed to re-do the driver install].

1. Plugged in the USB cable for my scanner and switched on the PC.

2. Windows loads and detects the new hardware and the wizard begins to run [displays a window saying the new hardware has been detected].

3. I leave that wizard window alone, switch on the USB HDD [which is detected and enabled], go to the scanner installation exe file [on the USB HD], and run the exe file

4. When the driver has finished installing its files [the inf file was placed in "C:\WINNT\inf" folder as before] I was asked to OK a reboot and did so.

5. At reboot the scanner hardware was once again detected, but this time [because he driver files were in place?] the driver was installed automatically.

I wonder why in some cases the driver files should be in place BEFORE the hardware is connected, and other times not?