Re: Asrock P4V88+ + PCI WiFi-g card installation error: Access is denied


<spamtime@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1130354066.268076.229790@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> The Asrock P4VT8+ motherboard in my desktop died yesterday (strangely,
> a fatal AGP socket failure...), so I've today replaced it with an
> Asrock P4V88+ motherboard.
>
> Reinstalling my hardware's gone fine, apart from when plugging my
> generic PCI 54Mbps wireless-g card back in.
>
> The software installation disk that came with the card, asks me to
> install the drivers (in my case, under XP-Home SP2), switch off the PC,
> install the card, then restart the PC. This worked for my old
> motherboard, but doesn't this time round.
>
> Instead, XP detects new hardware (an Ethernet Controller) and wants to
> install the drivers for it. If I allow this, installation fails, if I
> point XP to the correct .inf and .sys driver files supplied on the
> installation disk, it also fails.
>
> The message I get is:
>
> Hardware Update Wizard:
> Cannot install this hardware
> An error occurred during installation...
>
> Access is denied
>
> Access is denied? What does that mean?
>
> I can see no settings that can be tweaked in the BIOS, so am at a
> complete loss?
>
> Please can anyone suggest how to address this unusual error > Access is
> denied.
>
> Many thanks - Steven.
>
You did remove any previous reference to the card from the Device manager,
before you tried the re-install ?. If not, then do so, and switch off the
computer. Then restart and let
XP re-find it.
bw..OJ


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