Hi all,
{warning: the post is long and there is a question at the end.}
Last Wednesday, I was working on the computer when all of a sudden, I lost
speech and the computer froze. I rebooted, still no speech and the video
display was inverted.
Even narrator did not work. I then booted into safe mode to find that the
display look normal. I then uninstalled the video card drivers and rebooted
into
normal mode. No go, still no speech. I then uninstalled the sound card
drivers. My default soundcard at the time was a creative SBLive 24 bit
soundcard. I then tried to boot into the last known good configuration from
the boot menu. That was a mistake. No real change. The display was still
inverted.
I finally reinstalled the video drivers which solved the inverted display
issue. However, there was still no sound. Id then installed the creative
sound
card drivers only to find that the display was inverted again and no speech.
I again uninstalled the video and sound card drivers and physically removed
the SBLive card from the computer. A I then booted the computer to find that
there was no change. Upon running the volume control, I discover that there
was no sound mixer. I reinstalled only the mixer from the creative seedy but
the display became inverted.
I finally installed a USB soundcard and got speech after installing jaws 7.1
(Jaws for Windows is my screen reader). Jaws 7.0 was giving me a video
intercept error which I was unable to fix.
After this, I discovered that my CD-ROM drive was hosed. It showed up with
the characteristic yellow! In device manager. I tried to update its driver
only
to be told that the installation of the driver had failed due to invalid
data.
I have subsequently discovered that I need not have reinstalled the video
drivers since what had happened was that a rotation option had got wrongly
set
to 270°. I set this to normal and the display is the right way up again.
I have reinstalled jaws 7.0 since I need to use the J-Say product. The
system is back to normal except for my cd-rom drive not working. I have got
a brand new ASUS CRW-5232A4 cd-writer. It is detected by the bios but comes
in device manager with ! Marks. The drive works as expected in another
computer. I want to avoid reinstalling Windows so what can I do? Updating
the driver does not help since Windows tells me that the best driver is
already installed for this device. One option is for me to use a USB cd-rom
drive but that is not a permanent solution. Except for this, the computer
works as expected.
System configuration
MB=Intel D865GBF_
OS=Windows 2000 professional
OS Version= 5.0.2195 Service Pack 4 Build 2195
BIOS Version BIOS Date: 03/07/05 16:05:05 Ver: 08.00.10
Pranav
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