I am having a problem with my driver install on Windows 2000. I have some
how put my PC into a state where I can’t install my device driver/hardware.
I have an inf file that appears to work in some systems but on a couple of
different machines it has refused to work correctly and I can’t seem to
figure out why.
The “Found New Hardware Wizard” detects the hardware. I click through the
dialogs until it prompts me for the location of an inf file. I point it to
my inf file and click OK. It appears to install but ends up with displaying
a message that an error occurred during the installation of the device. The
error listed is the system can’t find the file specified. I check and it
has created an oem0.inf and oem0.pnf file and the driver has been installed
into \winnt\system32\drivers. I not sure what file the system can’t find
(there are no other files to install in this inf). If I click the finish
button the “Found New Hardware Wizard” will run again. The only way I have
managed to stop the wizard is to delete the oem file from the inf directory.
I’ve run the inf file through the 2000 and XP chkinf scripts and they pass
(there is 1 error about the CatalogFile required but since this driver isn’t
signed I don’t think that this is really an error.
Also, once a machine gets into this state it seems to be stuck there forever
(short of reinstalling the OS). I’ve gone through the registry and deleted
references to my driver but that doesn’t seem to restore things back to
normal.
I looked at setupapi.log but that lists the same error (can’t find the file
specified) with no indication of what caused the error. Any ideas on how to
resolve this would be appreciated.
- Steve -
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