Vista - Drivers get lost and reinstalled on every restart.

Hi,

Vista has to seem some problem to keep drivers:
- for some mainboard chipset component (VIA Standard PCI to PCI Bridge)
- for my TV Tuner Card (Hauppauge WINTV PVR PCI II)

These drivers get installed successfully, but after a restart they seem to
be lost, and get reinstalled automatically again.

The chipset drivers (VIA Standard PCI to PCI Bridge) are not officially
released/tested for vista (i think Asus/VIA didn't release some for vista
yet). The tv-tuner driver i installed is designed for vista.

However, these drivers work (i can use the TV Tuner card without problems) -
But why are they lost on every startup??

This is quite annoying, because the Media Center TV-Tuner settings get also
lost on every restart.

Does anybody have experience with this kind of problems? Is it possible to
make vista "save" this drivers properly ? Is there a workaround?

thanks for answers of all kind.

regards,
doggy_v345

Don't rag on Vista because of a problem that most likely is rooted in the
drivers, and most likely in the install procedure. One highly likely
possibility is that the INF file has a bogus image path that it shoves into
the reigistry when it defines the service entry in the registry. That path
does not exist under Vista, so the system goes through an install to resolve
unknown hardware. That's not Vista's problem.

--
The personal opinion of
Gary G. Little


"Doggy_v345" <Doggy_v345@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Vista has to seem some problem to keep drivers:
> - for some mainboard chipset component (VIA Standard PCI to PCI Bridge)
> - for my TV Tuner Card (Hauppauge WINTV PVR PCI II)
>
> These drivers get installed successfully, but after a restart they seem to
> be lost, and get reinstalled automatically again.
>
> The chipset drivers (VIA Standard PCI to PCI Bridge) are not officially
> released/tested for vista (i think Asus/VIA didn't release some for vista
> yet). The tv-tuner driver i installed is designed for vista.
>
> However, these drivers work (i can use the TV Tuner card without
> problems) -
> But why are they lost on every startup??
>
> This is quite annoying, because the Media Center TV-Tuner settings get
> also
> lost on every restart.
>
> Does anybody have experience with this kind of problems? Is it possible to
> make vista "save" this drivers properly ? Is there a workaround?
>
> thanks for answers of all kind.
>
> regards,
> doggy_v345