John DeMarco
10/28/2008 9:11:00 AM
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> We have a problem, and as I am not a driver programmer, or even a Windows
> Applications programmer, I don?t even know how to start. Any help you can
> give
> will be appreciated.
>
> This involves the Dell Latitude XT laptop. This computer has an N-Trig
> touchscreen digitizer. I am skipping the analysis of the problem and
> getting
> right to basics. The touchscreen is hardwired to the USB bus. When the
> computer is booted, anything using a particular GEAR driver DVD driver
> (I.E.,
> iTunes, Ghost) will cause the touchscreen drivers to not load properly.
> Yet if
> the device is plugged in after boot, both the device and the touchscreen
> work
> fine. This same problem seems to occur with some other drivers.
>
> Dell, N-Trig, Gear, and Microsoft have been working on this for 7 months
> without solution. We have found a prospective work-around ? if we delete
> one
> registry key
> ([HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GEARAspiWDM] the
> PnP
> manager will fail to see the DVD drive and will properly load the
> Digitizer.
> But then the DVD is invisible. But, if we then re-install the Gear
> drivers,
> the DVD will become visible and fully functional without a re-boot. That
> means
> that if we put the install program in startup everything works perfectly,
> except that there are all sorts of screens to click on and we have to
> delete
> the key again, with another screen to click.
>
> What we need to do is write a new installer which has no user
> intervention,
> does not write to the registry, and checks that the key is deleted. (in
> case
> some new software replaced it.) We can then put this into Startup and get
> a
> working computer until Dell, N-Trig, Gear, and Microsoft fix the problem,
> if
> they ever do. The Gear installer is an MSI in an EXE wrapper. We have
> extracted the and decompiled it with MSIDIFF so we have all important
> files and
> the INI, but the install routine is 30 pages long and we don?t know what
> to do
> with it.
>
> Can anyone give us any assistance, or at least point us in the right
> direction?
> There are several thousand Dell XT users who would be very happy.
>
Have you checked msconfig? (I presume it's a win XP laptop). Go to run, and
type msconfig. Check the startup folder. If there are too many unnecessary
(ticked) entries, it might give your laptop a hard time when booting. My
mother's HP win vista laptop (celeron M) even after we installed an extra 1
gig (1.5 gig total) cannot bootup unless we disable everything, except the
synaptics and the language bat (Vista greek).I cannot think of everything
else right now.
HTH.HAND.
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Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
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