tyhs Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 Well...I've tried it on all 4. Each time the installer (or device manager) reinstalled drivers. I've tried to uninstall all drivers but (and this is where my knowledge of Vista fails me) there seems to be a repository in /Windows/DriverStore or one of its subdirectories that stores original install files. So uninstalling each driver in Device Manager doesn't delete all files and I cannot delete them in Safe Mode (I guess booting to command prompt is next but this will be a PITA with all of the files installed). I know I'm missing something and more research should eventually fix the problem but sucks to spend all the time and effort with an OS that is purported to be Plug and Play. My plan of attack is to delete/uninstall everything OR restore from a previous backup point to before I started all of this nonsense and then try again.
hitman Posted April 6, 2009 Posted April 6, 2009 This stick IS pnp. Uninstalling of drivers may be an uninstaller issue. How did you update the drivers? Windows LiveUpdate or through Saitek? Id double check your windows update installation files and see if any updates for the saitek stick were indeed installed.
Slayer Posted April 7, 2009 Posted April 7, 2009 I just had a similar problem I reported this on the saitek forums. Aparently there has been new drivers released to windows update but NOT on the saitek site. Somehow windows update replaced 1 of my driver files but not all of them. I went into device manager and right clicked and picked update driver on anything mentioning saitek(Mostly in the HID column) after I did that I had to reinstall the magic mouse driver. Botom line is if it installs just one of those drivers from windows update you need to replace them all. even if you uninstalled all the saitek software from your computer...... the second you reboot it will download and install the new one off windowsupdate. Try to update all your HID devices for saitek and see if this works for you ... took me all day to figure out what heappend to my stick and keyboard.... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] System Specs Intel I7-3930K, Asrock EXTREME9, EVGA TITAN, Mushkin Chronos SSD, 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws Z series 2133, TM Warthog and MFD's, Saitek Proflight Combat pedals, TrackIR 5 + TrackClip PRO, Windows 7 x64, 3-Asus VS2248H-P monitors, Thermaltake Level 10 GT, Obutto cockpit
CyBerkut Posted April 7, 2009 Posted April 7, 2009 It's stuff like that in the past that led me to changing my Windows Update settings to notify me instead of automatically installing. I generally go ahead on security related items like Windows Defender and Internet Explorer updates. Updates to things that are already working, such as my ethernet, I usually leave uninstalled (The ol' "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach). I've had MS drivers for Saitek controllers "break" the SST software before, so I defer to Saitek's drivers unless I have a compelling reason not to. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] There's no place like 127.0.0.1
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