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    Something just went crazy, need help

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by bosox188, Oct 27, 2007.

  1. bosox188

    bosox188 Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I just installed the 156.73 drivers on my inspiron 1520 but I think somewhere along the line something went wrong. I first noticed it even before I installed them. I uninstalled the old drivers (169.01 gave me trouble) and then rebooted in safe mode and used driversweeper and drivercleaner pro to clean out the drivers. I also chose to let it clean any ati files even though there should be none on my computer because I have no ati devices. There were however some ati files that both programs cleaned out. Now I have a weird thing where even though my sound works when I click it in the volume control, movies and games have no sound, and also it tells me i'm not connected to a network even though the internet is working and windows media player keeps freezing and saying media sharing is disabled. I can't even system restore earlier than the point at which i installed the drivers.

    driversweeper log:

    Deleted file (C:\Windows\prefetch\NVCPLUI.EXE-8572EADF.pf)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\prefetch\NVUNINST.EXE-163D5593.pf)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\atiicdxx.dat)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\atitmmxx.dll)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\atiumdag.dll)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\atiumdva.dll)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\atikmdag.sys)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ativcaxx.cpa)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ativcaxx.vp)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ativokxx.vp)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ativpkxx.vp)
    Deleted file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\ativvpxx.vp)
    Deleted folder (C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA\)
    Deleted folder (C:\Windows\Help\nvcpl\)
    Deleted registry (HKCU\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global)
    Deleted registry (HKCU\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA Control Panel)
    Deleted registry (HKLM\Software\ATI Technologies\CBT)
    Deleted registry (HKLM\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global)
    Deleted registry (HKLM\System\ControlSet003\Control\Class\{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000)

    drivercleaner log

    - nVidia
    - ATI
    Registry Deleted (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FFB699E0-306A-11d3-8BD1-00104B6F7516})
    File Deleted (C:\Windows\Inf\Ati*.inf)
    File Deleted (C:\Windows\Inf\Ati*.PNF)
    Registry Deleted (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID\{EBB5845F-CA80-11CF-BD3C-008029E89281})
     
    bosox188, Oct 27, 2007
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  2. chelet

    chelet Notebook Deity

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    I think it's time to reinstall Windows.
    That's what I'd do.
    It's faster (for me) than trying to figure out what was messed up in the registry.
     
    chelet, Oct 27, 2007
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    bosox188 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah I was afraid of that. I'm guessing I can do a repair and keep everything
     
    bosox188, Oct 27, 2007
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    Try the repair.
    If that doesn't work, back up what you want to keep and reinstall.
     
    chelet, Oct 27, 2007
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