Serious driver problems? (Even my CPU?)

[DANCUBE]

Alright, so this is what I'm up against.
I've had this problem for a pretty long time now, but it hasn't bothered me that much (well, once I got past pulling my hair out and eventually deciding that it was un-fixable), but recently, I've tried to mount ISO files and of course, this old "Error Code 3" driver problem restricts Daemon Tools abillity to install drivers.
I'm not asking how to get Daemon tools working, I'm simply going insane over this entire problem, I mean, what IS happening here?

It's far too late for a system restore, and I do not want to reinstall my OS unless I REALLY have to, which I presume I don't, since this must be fixable.
I've tried uninstalling, restarting, and reinstalling drivers, but nothing seems to work, infact, every single time I uninstall something, when it re-installs, I get the error messages that the driver did not install correctly, and that error is of course Error Code 3.

I'm definitely not running out of memory, by the way.
I was thinking, possibly there's some way to purge the drivers folder of everything that isn't required for Windows to operate?

I just don't understand, it's so confusing, and now that I realize it's causing a lot of problems, it's REALLY getting on my nerves.
Any suggestions?

 

[Britton30]

You can try a manual Windows Update to see if anything will install.
Aslo run http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html#post14392 to check for file corruptions.

 

[DANCUBE]

You can try a manual Windows Update to see if anything will install.
Aslo run http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html#post14392 to check for file corruptions.

I've tried manual updates, nothing was fixed.
I did try and run a Microsoft FixIt program that supposedly (well, I'm sure it DOES work, just not for me) finds problems with device drivers, searches Windows Update and then installs them, but of course, they all failed.

I tried SFC, and it DID find corrupt files, it also reported that it couldn't repair all of them.
The problem still remains.

 

[pebbly]

Hi DANCUBE, Welcome to the forums, could you please tell us the make /model of your PC/ Laptop ,this will help us further to find drivers for you you seem to have a lot of virtual CD/DVD drives ,try uninstalling magic iso then updating the troublesome drivers through windows update first , How much ram do you have?

 

[Ashoksc19]

Explanation of error codes generated by Device Manager in Windows XP Professional
check it out
might be helpful

 

[DANCUBE]

Hi DANCUBE, Welcome to the forums, could you please tell us the make /model of your PC/ Laptop ,this will help us further to find drivers for you you seem to have a lot of virtual CD/DVD drives ,try uninstalling magic iso then updating the troublesome drivers through windows update first , How much ram do you have?

I've done all of those things, the problem is that they will not successfully install, each time I uninstall, re-install and reboot, windows searches on Windows Update for the driver, finds the correct driver, and attempts to install, this results in Failure.
I've tried manually installing the correct drivers too, no use, same result.
I have two sticks of 2GB DDR2 800MHz RAM (4GB).

Explanation of error codes generated by Device Manager in Windows XP Professional
check it out
might be helpful

Thanks, but I know that Error 3 is pointing to either driver corruption or low memory.

 

[pebbly]

DANCUBE, have you tried installing the drivers in compat mode ? http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

 

[1Bowtie]

The first thing i would do is get rid of Daemon Tools it's nothing but problems in Win 7, then reinstall the chipset driver for your motherboard from the manufacturer.

 

[DANCUBE]

The first thing i would do is get rid of Daemon Tools it's nothing but problems in Win 7, then reinstall the chipset driver for your motherboard from the manufacturer.

Done it, no difference.
The problem was there a good while before I installed Daemon Tools.
The only reason I installed it was because CloneCD stopped working, and when I checked the device manager, I seen that they had yellow triangles beside them, and gave Daemon tools a go, but as you know, it also didn't work.

DANCUBE, have you tried installing the drivers in compat mode ? http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

I haven't, I guess I'll give it a go.
I'll try running it in "Vista" compatibility, although I doubt it'll do much, I'll try.

 

[Britton30]

You can try a manual Windows Update to see if anything will install.
Aslo run http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html#post14392 to check for file corruptions.

I've tried manual updates, nothing was fixed.
I did try and run a Microsoft FixIt program that supposedly (well, I'm sure it DOES work, just not for me) finds problems with device drivers, searches Windows Update and then installs them, but of course, they all failed.

I tried SFC, and it DID find corrupt files, it also reported that it couldn't repair all of them.
The problem still remains.

Try running it two more times with a reboot between each one. It takes more than once at times.
EDIT: I mean re-run sfc.

 

[DANCUBE]

I re-installed using compatibility mode, and the drivers still failed to install.
I re-ran SFC, and it found corrupted files again, and still couldn't repair them all, and nothing was fixed.

 

[Britton30]

Unfortunately I think you will need a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3413-repair-install.html#post31238 unless others have more ideas.

 

[1Bowtie]

Now you have two choices, if you have a backup image i would put it in, if not it's clean install time unless you want to keep fighting a losing battle.

 

[CB]

Hi Dancube.
I was a fan of Daemon since its capable of serving multiple virtual CDROM drive.
If you still want to use it try to reinstall SPTD (usually come along with Daemon)
But if it happened to mess up with your driver, better get rid of it.

I suggest you to use Ultraiso Version 9. It is small but powerful, able to make me get rid of Nero (for burning and managing ISO and NRG image) It is less than 20 mb but it certainly will serve you up to 8 virtual drive (but sure depends on the amount of available drive letters).
Remember, you have to run it as administrator to set the amount of virtual drive.

On top of all, it runs seamlessly with Win 8 DP

Hope that helps.

Cheers

 

[DANCUBE]

Speaking of Windows 8, instead of re-installing Windows 7, should I just install the DP of Windows 8 instead?

 

[CB]

Installing WDP won't bother you at all. All you need is just patiently try to get along with its different start menu and the desktop style (metro style) but many friends and I have it run since q3 2011. most of drivers for Win 7 work with it.

 

[DANCUBE]

Sounds great, I'll probably just do that.
You can disable Metro, right?

Also, anybody else have any suggestions regarding my choice of OS right now? (Windows 7 reinstall or 8 DP)

 

[Britton30]

I for one, hate Win 8 and the goofy Metro stuff. Without that uneeded part it seems like Win 7 with squared-off windows.
If you're in a reinstall mood give the repair install a try first but make backups of your data just in case.

Metro can be disabled.

 

[writhziden]

I had similar issues at one time that Hardware devices are not working or are not detected in Windows fixed. You said you used a Fix It tool, but did you use this one?

 

[DANCUBE]

I had similar issues at one time that Hardware devices are not working or are not detected in Windows fixed. You said you used a Fix It tool, but did you use this one?

Yep, that's the one.
Unfortunately didn't fix it for me.