what happened

[ssahl]

Ok, I had a perfectly fine working winXP and all I did was replace the video card take out the tv tuner card that was in it, and put in an adaptec scsi card (AHA-2940) and I hooked up 3 devices, a cd-rom, hard drive, and tape drive,
when I booted the computer back up, all was fine, posted, seen the scsi card with all of the devices and booted right into windows. GREAT

so I thought, well with the new video card I had to install the new drivers, I did this by going into device manager and there was a yellow ! next to graphics card so I right clicked on it and updated driver pointing to the cd that came with the card, the ! went away, I changed the resolution and everything looked fine. I then went into add/remove programs and removed the tv tuner card software and also the software from the old video card (radeon 9800 pro)
I then rebooted

Now I cant access the device manager or anything, keeps telling me that the
'devmgmt.msc' is not there, or I dont have permission to open it, which is not true, but I cant get into anything. MMC items will not open, and I'm not positive but when I looked through the registry it seems like there is a lot of stuff missing.
This is even a new install of XP and I dont understand why this would happen,
rather then going through the format/reinstall/and spend ALL day updating XP yet again, is there something I can do to? maybe copy some xp files from the XP cd or another XP machine??
I tried booting to safe mode, same thing, I also tried to boot to last known good configureation, same thing. Seems like I should be able to just replace some of those files, as when I open task manager, some things that should be running are not, only had 17 running processes

[macko72]

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

You can try this it will load missing files but you will lose any updates, and you will have to download them again !!!

[lil Jimmie]

You might try running SFC

[Negeva]

Check this out - especially the bit concerning TV cards http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic29639.html

Also fo future reference it is always best to un-install any drivers/software for cards before u remove them from the PC.

[Dodge7]

Have you tried repairing the system with Windows disk? or a reinstall, without formatting?
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[ssahl]

Originally Posted by Negeva Check this out - especially the bit concerning TV cards http://www.ozzu.com/ftopic29639.html

wow, I've had this same aver tv tuner card for years and have installed on many systems, this is the first time this has happened. why would software that lets you watch tv from a pci card need to do anything to those files???

I wonder if I put the card back in and reinstalled the drivers and software if it would start working again. LOL

I'm not counting on that, but who knows, stupid programers

It looks like its a formatin and a installin I will go

[ssahl]

Oh, yea, I tried the above suggestions along with the ones in the TV card link, no luck

[comp615]

I also have this problem...none of the MMC snap-ins work :? And I cannot use windows search...did you have that too?