On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:34:31 +0530, you wrote:
Remember Win 2K did not come with ASPI layer drivers or whatever and they had to
be installed separately.
Had to do this regularly several years ago.
NT never had ASPI layer either from out the box.
Hugh
>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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