#73396 - HyperHacker - Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:13 am
Out of nowhere it seems WMB has just died on me. It hasn't worked since I moved the folder containing the driver to another drive, but there are copies of the required files in \System32, and I've tried reinstalling it, rebooting etc.
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| This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31) |
Why not? :-( (I'm using V1.0.0.8 of the driver.)
#73402 - jas20 - Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:07 am
WARNING: This most MAY not help
Something like that happened to me a while ago. When I was reinstalling my laptop.
I was sure I keep the drivers I needed (i386 XP), and removed all the others.
When I was trying to get it working with the Gigabyte utiltiy (my little hack) it was showing the normal driver.
Then I tried it the normal way, making it completly for WMB. I got that meesage.
Turns out I needed to get the driver again. But I was so sure I has the right one...
Something has to work... As I said "WARNING: This most MAY not help".
My stupid ideas: Remove the driver files in system32 and start from scratch (download another copy). Or not listen to me.
Jas20
#73403 - HyperHacker - Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:15 am
Doesn't seem to have helped. It prompts for the file, copies it into \system32\drivers, and finishes installation saying it can't load the drivers.
#73417 - FireSlash - Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:21 pm
- In device manager, right click and un-install the wifi card
- Reboot
- Check the driver in device manager.
- If its still not working, right click, update driver. Point it to the source driver from the installation folder (NOT the drivers in the system32 driver cache)
- If its still not working, update the driver again, but install the mfg's driver. If its giving the same error on the MFG driver, you've got deeper issues. The card may be bad, or windows may be fuxx0r3d.
- If the MFG driver worked fine, search for and delete rt2560.sys from c:\windows\system32\drivers and rt2560class.dll from c:\windows\system32, reboot, download a NEW COPY of the driver, and update the MFG driver to the new copy of the wmb driver
- If its still not working, I'm out of ideas.
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#73482 - HyperHacker - Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:43 am
Eh, after I uninstall it and reboot, there's no longer any wifi card listed in the device manager.
#73553 - FireSlash - Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:56 pm
| HyperHacker wrote: |
| Eh, after I uninstall it and reboot, there's no longer any wifi card listed in the device manager. |
Thats not good.... Try the add/remove hardware dialog. If it doesn't find it, odds are your wifi card = toast :(
However, a last ditch effort may be to move the card to a different PCI slot. Windows might just be really really confused o.O
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#73575 - HyperHacker - Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:13 pm
Well, should there be? I mean I did just uninstall it. Not the driver, the card itself.
#73663 - FireSlash - Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:50 am
If you remove the card, windows DOES NOT remove the driver. But it will be hidden from you until the card is re-installed.
Try putting the card back in, but in a different PCI slot. This will force XP to give the device a new driver, since it can't verify that it really is the same card.
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#73755 - HyperHacker - Tue Feb 28, 2006 12:50 am
Ah, thanks. Moving it to another slot got it working again, but I do wonder why it stopped in the first place. I hope I don't have to do that often... Windows really doesn't seem to like moving things (especially network cards) to different slots, so if I get 2 more PCI cards in the future (filling up the 2 empty slots) it could start to be quite a problem. Plus opening up my computer and shuffling them things around is a pain.