Computer Help

[cravnravn]

Microsoft did an automatic update yesterday morning on me...After it was complete, it told me to restart, which I did, when it restarted it went into reboot, and automatically re booted to day 1...Now it wont recognize my modem, I took out the modem, turned it on and loaded the drivers, shut it down, then installed the modem, restarted and nothing...the strange thing, is I open the control panel, click on modems, and the modem is not there..But in my system tray, it says it found new hardware, and shows the modem and its description.

 

Any clues???

[dc.]

Vista or XP?

[cravnravn]

XP

[dc.]

Hrmmm...

 

XP normally doesn't have these issues, but I guess they could. The fact that it's related to an auto-upgrade through Windows, though, really doesn't make sense.

 

But... obviously all hardware and drivers are sensitive to the systems they are on, etc. When I upgraded to Vista, I had the same problem with my wireless adapter. It would recognize the hardware, kind of... but never seem to 'register' with it appropriately.

 

I eventually had to find a work-around; Vista and my ol' adapter just didn't get along. Not sure how to help except to google it, Crav. You can't be the only one experiencing it.

[Dunno]

If you have a restore point from prior to the upgrade, you can roll back and undo the changes.

 

Click for instructions

[cravnravn]

Thanks..I'll try a restore when I get home.

[cravnravn]

If you have a restore point from prior to the upgrade, you can roll back and undo the changes.

 

Click for instructions

 

Dunno, My system restore would only allow me to go back to Feb 14th, I guess Im screwed??

[dc.]

Yeah, sometimes those updates remove old restores if they are really big updates. What update was it Crav? A service pack?

[cravnravn]

Check this out

All sorts of problems with the update that just occured

 

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/thread/73cea559-ebbd-4274-96bc-e292b69f2fd1

[dc.]

Yeah, not surprised at all. It sucks... but in a little while I'm sure they'll start coming out with all kinds of fixes. Or ways to uninstall the upgrade.