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Creative Driver Update Messes Up Mouse and Internet
Hello all,
I installed the Creative X-Fi Audio Processor update (10/22/2009), and it completely messed up my computer (Windows 7 x64).
I accidentally installed this update while checking if I had new updates to install. Little did I know that it would cause me much grief. I rebooted the system so that the updates could finish, and when I saw my login screen things went bad. The screen resolution was all out of whack (800x600, while my regular resolution is 1920x1080). To make matters worse, the mouse won't move. When I logged in, I discovered the internet wouldn't work either. Soon, a popup window popped up, saying that "No ATI graphics driver is installed, or the ATI driver is not functioning properly. Please install the ATI driver appropriate for your ATI hardware." I went to the display settings (using only the keyboard) and discovered that my default resolution was no longer on the list. Dejected, I went on my other PC and downloaded the ATI driver pack for my video card on the crippled computer. I transfered it via flash drive to the crippled computer and installed it - rebooted, my resolution was back to normal, but the mouse and internet were still not working. I then transfered a Creative driver pack I got from the official site and put it on the flash drive and transferred it - no changes. I then used Guru3d's Driver Sweeper to get rid of the dregs of the Creative drivers, rebooted, nothing, and now my audio's dead too.
What's most depressing is that I'd installed this update a while ago, and discovered that this happened, and quickly did a system restore, and everything was okay. This time, for some reason, all my system restores failed and by the time I figured out they were corrupt or something, there were so many undo system restore points on the system restore screen that there were no more points from before the installation.
Info:
Last update before Creative driver installation: Definition Update for Windows Defender - KB91597 (4/12/2010).
No error codes from update - in fact it states it's successful.
Antivirus: ESET NOD32 (Norton I never activated)
Clean install of W7, computer came with it
Does anyone have any ideas to fix this horrid problem? Thanks very much in advance.