imaginary sound card keeps installing itself?

[Guest jbclem]

Everytime I uninstall it, and reboot, this non existent Yamaha DS1 sound card installs itself. This is preventing my

real sound card that I just bought (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) from installing itself. The old sound card managed to

co-exist with the imaginary one, but the Santa Cruz won't. I've gone through the registry and removed all references to

Yamaha (some keys wouldn't delete until I changed their permissions). That takes 30 minutes...then on the next reboot

they/it reinstall. I've uninstalled the Yamaha in Device Manager but it comes right back.

 

Is there a way I can prevent plug and play from reinstalling this Yamaha sound card. It is not present on the

motherboard, so I can't remove it. This is an old computer, P2 350mHz, running Windows 2000.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is driving me nuts.

 

 

jc

[Guest John John]

Re: imaginary sound card keeps installing itself?

 

Is this an "on-board" sound device? Go in the BIOS and disable it.

 

John

 

jbclem wrote:

> Everytime I uninstall it, and reboot, this non existent Yamaha DS1 sound card installs itself. This is preventing my

> real sound card that I just bought (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) from installing itself. The old sound card managed to

> co-exist with the imaginary one, but the Santa Cruz won't. I've gone through the registry and removed all references to

> Yamaha (some keys wouldn't delete until I changed their permissions). That takes 30 minutes...then on the next reboot

> they/it reinstall. I've uninstalled the Yamaha in Device Manager but it comes right back.

>

> Is there a way I can prevent plug and play from reinstalling this Yamaha sound card. It is not present on the

> motherboard, so I can't remove it. This is an old computer, P2 350mHz, running Windows 2000.

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is driving me nuts.

>

>

> jc

>

>

[Guest DL]

Re: imaginary sound card keeps installing itself?

 

Also look in 'hidden devices'

 

"jbclem" <jbclem1@charter.net> wrote in message

news:Q1SWi.1318$474.342@newsfe06.lga...

> Everytime I uninstall it, and reboot, this non existent Yamaha DS1 sound

> card installs itself. This is preventing my

> real sound card that I just bought (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) from

> installing itself. The old sound card managed to

> co-exist with the imaginary one, but the Santa Cruz won't. I've gone

> through the registry and removed all references to

> Yamaha (some keys wouldn't delete until I changed their permissions).

> That takes 30 minutes...then on the next reboot

> they/it reinstall. I've uninstalled the Yamaha in Device Manager but it

> comes right back.

>

> Is there a way I can prevent plug and play from reinstalling this Yamaha

> sound card. It is not present on the

> motherboard, so I can't remove it. This is an old computer, P2 350mHz,

> running Windows 2000.

>

> Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is driving me nuts.

>

>

> jc

>

>

[Guest Ben Myers]

Re: imaginary sound card keeps installing itself?

 

"jbclem" <jbclem1@charter.net> wrote in message news:Q1SWi.1318$474.342@newsfe06.lga...

> Everytime I uninstall it, and reboot, this non existent Yamaha DS1 sound card installs itself. This is preventing my

> real sound card that I just bought (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) from installing itself. The old sound card managed to

> co-exist with the imaginary one, but the Santa Cruz won't. I've gone through the registry and removed all references to

> Yamaha (some keys wouldn't delete until I changed their permissions). That takes 30 minutes...then on the next reboot

> they/it reinstall. I've uninstalled the Yamaha in Device Manager but it comes right back.

> Is there a way I can prevent plug and play from reinstalling this Yamaha sound card. It is not present on the

> motherboard, so I can't remove it. This is an old computer, P2 350mHz, running Windows 2000.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is driving me nuts.

 

Click "Start", "Settings", "Control Panel", double-click "Administrative Tools", double-click

"Services" and see if the "Startup Type" for "Plug and Play" is set to "Automatic". If so,

double-click it and change it to "Manual" or "Disabled". Then restart and try to install the

correct driver for the sound card.

 

Ben