Registry Editor Help

Richard Cranium · January 13th, 2002, 08:07 PM

W95, again. Yes still pounding on the same old junk, 24hrs later.

Format C: start fresh

Bad Sound card, some old junk made by IBM called a Mww something.

Took it out, the proggy did NOT have an uninstall option, nothing listed in add/remove programs.

Put in good card, now Mww still runs in TSR's

Get BSOD on boot
"Mwave Error: VXD003 unable to register the DSP"

Got startup cop, stopped that from starting up, WRONG.. Still attached to windows

I cannot delete the files from C: cuz windoze says they're being used.

Need registry help to remove this without another Format C:

strangerstill · January 13th, 2002, 08:20 PM

Really can't remember Win95, but...

how 'bout a search for the filename of the vxd? Should find it if it is the registry that's calling it.

Otherwise, delete from dos?

Richard Cranium · January 13th, 2002, 08:39 PM

Find cannot locate Vxd003

Did some good, maybe. Booted to SAFE and deleted the C: entries for the program there, still get the same error with nothing in the windows folder that I can find related to the old card.

For the record, it(the card) was a Mwave sound/modem combo
model # md-2781 ISA card.

BFlurie · January 13th, 2002, 09:57 PM

Doc, go to safe mode again & delete any devices in Device manager relating to the removed card. Don't reboot yet. Run Sysedit & look in all those files, especially System.ini, for any line that seems to relate to that card & put a semicolon in front of it (a REM(space) in autoexec). Look in C:\windows\inf and C:\windows\inf\other for any .inf file that looks like the card's name & change the extension to .in. Then delete the two *.bin files in C:\windows\inf

Richard Cranium · January 14th, 2002, 10:32 AM

Thanks, will try that tonight when I get home.

Richard Cranium · January 14th, 2002, 06:59 PM

Done.

sad to say same error

MWAVE ERROR: VxD003 Unable to register the DSP

press any key to continue.

Besides this problem, I'm having a very hard time and hate to admit it,,, but WHERE IS THE "ANY" KEY ??

Richard Cranium · January 14th, 2002, 07:03 PM

format c: underway

We've spent way too much time fiddling aroung when a 30 minute format would have done the trick.

Thanks for the efforts guys I'm sure you pointed me in the right direction but I either did not follow correctly or did not inform of all the pertinant data needed to troubleshoot the issue.

Doc

SPEEDO · January 14th, 2002, 07:27 PM

Probably to late now but you probably should have wiped the drive with a low level format utility! Ya know really cleaned out all that stuff on there!

I hate to say this, but I really know how you feel!

This @$*&((&%% thing is not gonna beat me!

No matter how long it takes, I'm gonna win this one!

SPEEDO

Richard Cranium · January 14th, 2002, 07:42 PM

Yeah, prolly shoulda done that.

The Format is Done, windows installed Video drivers intact, we're back to fresh..

Now to get that sound card working