Here is what happened. I installed my VIA 6421 card and JF on my computer that is running Vista. I had to manually install my portio 32. Everything was running fine and I had flashed 5 drives. I went to open JF last night and I noticed my whole JF was missing, I was using 1.64. I downloaded JF again, this time the newer 1.66. When I opened JF it said that there was a error on portio 32 where just a couple of days prior it said it was installed and running. I open device manager and under portio 32 it tells me that the device driver is either corrupt or missing. I have tried to reinstall the drivers by going through the add hardware but everytime it starts the install it fails and says it cannot find the file. I tried to do a uninstall and then reinstall but when I do that I can never get portio 32 to reappear under device manager. I have deleted the vsmraid in the windows/system32/drivers file. I have to do a system restore to get the old portio 32 to show up under device manager. Does anyone have any ideas what is causing the problems?
I have never dealt with Visa as I believe "Vista is the Devil", however, if you go into Device Manager and right click on the PortIO32 device(s) and select "Disable" you should be able to manually copy the driver to the inf (%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\ I believe) folder. Then try to "Enable" the device.
If this doesn't work try going to Update driver, don't search (advanced), I will choose (advanced?), all devices, show all hardware, have disk, and manually browsing to and selecting the .inf file for each device.
I hope that's understandable and/or close to accurate. The last M$ computer I touched was almost a year ago at work before I got my company on Linux
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning ~ Rich Cook
EDIT: (I still haven't figured out the edit thing yet, maybe someone can drop a clue??? :)
I personally use iPrep for all my modding. It work's for BenQ, LiteOn, and Samsung really well. I have an old 386 with a 4 GB hard drive I use (it actually has a DB9 connector) that works really well for all three.
I also don't have to deal with the whole PortIO and VIA driver(s) un-install/re-install for each mod I do and best of all NO M$!!!
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning ~ Rich Cook
