problem installing device drivers

NTDEV
1

hi all
i am using the fastinst.exe a tool created by walter oney . It creates a Inf
file for the driver which i create .
The problem is when i make second driver it does not let me install the
driver , even if i have removed every single trace of previous driver from
the registry
It says ERROR 1078 The service with the same name exists.
can anyone tell me the reason so that i dont have the problems further
thanks a lot
shishir

2

>The problem is when i make second driver it does not let me install the

driver , even if i have removed every single trace of previous driver from
the registry
It says ERROR 1078 The service with the same name exists.
can anyone tell me the reason so that i dont have the problems further
thanks a lot

Under NT/2K just deleting the registry entries for a driver does NOT update
the memory copy of the driver database. You need to either reboot or else
delete the driver using the service control manager API’s.

  • Jan
3

Hi
To add the things i am using Numega Developer environment and class , and
have got the Walter Oneys FastInst.exe as the helper for creating the inf
files for my device drivers.
can any one tell me what might be the trouble here
as i am getting ERROR 1078
and then ERROR 2 when i removed the driver information from the registry.
And after reboot it lets me do the install.
But again after that its a problem.
thanks in advance
waiting for the answer
shishir
----- Original Message -----
From: “sak”
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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 7:46 PM
Subject: [ntdev] problem installing device drivers

> hi all
> i am using the fastinst.exe a tool created by walter oney . It creates a
Inf
> file for the driver which i create .
> The problem is when i make second driver it does not let me install the
> driver , even if i have removed every single trace of previous driver from
> the registry
> It says ERROR 1078 The service with the same name exists.
> can anyone tell me the reason so that i dont have the problems further
> thanks a lot
> shishir
>
>
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