Removed the drivers manually (the *.sys file(s), the registry entry for the driver, and the enumerated device entries from the Currentcontrol set), or just ran the uninstaller?
Thing is, if PnP switch is on in the BIOS (OS configures devices during bootup), what might happen is that Windows detects the onboard audio, tries to load the (non-existent and ripped-out, or disabled device) driver, then disables it as per its hardware config (the device disabling actually comes after initialising, and enabling all PnP devices, no matter what the BIOS setting). This obviously causes it to attempt to write to a memory address assigned to a non-existent device driver (hence trying to write/read to/from a 0x0 address).
So all the trouble might be just because Windows is missing the right driver file(s) for the disabled onboard audio. Also, there's an option somewhere over there in the System CP applet for disabling driver signing, it should be really disabled all the time.
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Date: 2006-07-06 11:51 am (UTC)Thing is, if PnP switch is on in the BIOS (OS configures devices during bootup), what might happen is that Windows detects the onboard audio, tries to load the (non-existent and ripped-out, or disabled device) driver, then disables it as per its hardware config (the device disabling actually comes after initialising, and enabling all PnP devices, no matter what the BIOS setting). This obviously causes it to attempt to write to a memory address assigned to a non-existent device driver (hence trying to write/read to/from a 0x0 address).
So all the trouble might be just because Windows is missing the right driver file(s) for the disabled onboard audio. Also, there's an option somewhere over there in the System CP applet for disabling driver signing, it should be really disabled all the time.