Driver overwritten?

[Curious Cat]

Hi i have a problem with my YD-8V08 card reader.

I have a dual boot system with Windows XP and Windows 7 beta...
After the installation of windows 7, it seems that the usb drivers from 7, were overwritten onto the xp installation as well and now the card reader does not work on my XP, however it works on the 7.

I have two separate HD's and not partitioned. Main, being the Xp and the second being the windows 7 install.

Any help is appreciated!

Tomoya

[sumo]

Hello Curious Cat,


did you try to reconnect the device under xp, so your OS can automaticly update the device driver?

Kind Regards
Chris

[Curious Cat]

Hi Sumo, thank you for the reply.

When you say reconnect, do you mean by physically disconnecting and reconnecting the device? If thats the case, I have yet to try that because i wasn't too sure which cable to pull to disconnect.
Please explain how I can safely do this. Do I keep my computer on while I reconnect? This is installed internally so would I be pulling the cable that's running to my motherboards usb ports?
(I did not build this computer. It was custom built)

What I have tried was to uninstall all 4 drivers from the device manager, and let windows XP install the driver automatically at startup. But this did not solve my problem.
Next, i tried disabling the card reader through device manager, and after reboot, manually enabling the card reader again through device manager. This got it to work, however, after each normal reboot, it would stop working again.
Next I installed the latest intel chipset DLed straight from the Asus website(P5Q is my MB) and updated the USB drivers to no avail...

I will try the reconnect advice Sumo, thanks for the tip!

Tomoya

[Curious Cat]

update:I have tried to reconnect the device. It works right after I reconnect the device, however.... it stops responding after a reboot...

Anyone else have other suggestions?

[sumo]

sorry, but thats scary, maybe your PC had a soul?

Did you also try another USB ports on you mainboard?

Kind Regards
Chris