26-11-2012, 11:17 PM
Hi Col,
Make sure that you have the latest service pack installed (available from Microsoft) - for XP I think it is SP2 - then check for any further updates to that. Now I wouldn't swear that doing all that will make things work as they should, since I'm not totally au fait with XP (here I am only using Windows 2000 + SP4), but it is well worth a try. What I do know is that if I install Windows 2000 on its own from the MS installation CD, all sorts of things don't work - until I then install SP4 - and even then install various updates on top of that.
When hardware manufacturers release an updated driver, they all seem to assume that the target system is fully up-to-date, but never tell you that that is what they assume and their new driver routines never seem to check for such a status either - hence problems arise like you describe.
Al.
Make sure that you have the latest service pack installed (available from Microsoft) - for XP I think it is SP2 - then check for any further updates to that. Now I wouldn't swear that doing all that will make things work as they should, since I'm not totally au fait with XP (here I am only using Windows 2000 + SP4), but it is well worth a try. What I do know is that if I install Windows 2000 on its own from the MS installation CD, all sorts of things don't work - until I then install SP4 - and even then install various updates on top of that.
When hardware manufacturers release an updated driver, they all seem to assume that the target system is fully up-to-date, but never tell you that that is what they assume and their new driver routines never seem to check for such a status either - hence problems arise like you describe.
Al.
