Anyone succeeded in updating Winfast TV2000XP Expert driver?

[beamguy]

Since installing my card I have downloaded and attempted to install two new sets of hardware drivers. Each time windows 2000 pro claims that it already has a suitable driver installed, and does not seem to recognize the new one. Has anyone succeded in upgrading to a new driver, or is their download just garbledy gook as far as windows is concerned. There has been no answer from leadtek in over three weeks!

[johns0]

I had that same problem with my expert card and realized i had the wrong drivers,are you sure the drivers are meant for the expert card and not the regular winfast 2000tv?

[beamguy]

I used ALL_DRV_88X_40212.zip

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There is also ALL_DRV_878_40212.zip, but I'm sure this is for the BT878 chip, I think...

Which did you use?

[johns0]

ALL_DRV_88X_40212.zip is the right drivers,you have to install 3 sets of drivers and you have to choose the right device for each one such as crossbar,tuner and videocapture,i just installed them with no problems.

[BrainStorm69]

Try going into device manager and removing all your capture devices. Then let Windows redetect them and install the new drivers when it asks for drivers for the devices detected.

[beamguy]

Thanks for your interest...

I did the following, I think I have done this before...

1) In add/remove programs I removed the Winfast/WDM driver. This gave me many advertisements for a few minutes, then said it had finished removing the driver and rebooted.

2) On reboot windows automatically detected the hardware and went about reinstalling the device without giving me any chance to choose a new driver. It only stopped when it could not find the file
c:\winnt\system32\winfast\mulmedia\wf88vcap.sys
which evidently was deleted by the uninstall process. I know there is a new one in the new driver package, but my system does not recognize that package as viable drivers.
3) I canceled from this installation, went into device manager, found the hardware with missing drivers and tried to install the new driver in its place. It again said it found one already in my system area and tried installing it, only to run up against the deleted driver file again. It simply does not think that the package from leadtek is any use for anything.

Got any ideas?

As I said, I have done this all before. I'm pretty sure I got out if it by executing the install program from the CD. It appears to know how to install the drivers...

By the way, I am getting a growing list of winfast entries in my registry. They don't seem to be deleted when I remove the device, and whenever I install it I get another set!

[beamguy]

I am even more confused after doing the following...

I copied the installation CD onto my harddrive, found the folder with the driver files in it, and replaced them with the ones from the latest zip file listed above. I then burned the CD and installed from it. The result?

During the installation process win2k brought up the "new hardware found" message for quite some time... I ignored it as I have done in the past... I think some people may get into trouble with this, as reported in this newsgroup.

I now have driver 5.13.1.1309 installed again (without a date)! Note,
I put driver version 02/06/2004 5.13.1.3301 on the CD, so the installation package must ignore the files on the CD - likely has them in one of the CAB files.

Note also, I cannot get even the 5.13.1.1309 files to install from the web download, so it appears that something is messed up and the web drivers just cannot be used by my system...

[johns0]

You dont need to uninstall the old drivers or let windows find them for you,what you have to do is go to control panel/system/hardware/device manager/sound,video and game controllers and click in each of WinFast TV2000 XP Expert WDM Video Capture,tvtuner and crossbar separately and choose driver/update driver/install from a specific location(advanced)/dont search,i will choose the driver to install from/have disk and browse to the folder with the new drivers and choose the specific driver you are updating,do this for all 3 drivers,remember to choose the right ones for each.

[beamguy]

You dont need to uninstall the old drivers or let windows find them for you,what you have to do is go to control panel/system/hardware/device manager/sound,video and game controllers and click in each of WinFast TV2000 XP Expert WDM Video Capture,tvtuner and crossbar separately and choose driver/update driver/install from a specific location(advanced)/dont search,i will choose the driver to install from/have disk and browse to the folder with the new drivers and choose the specific driver you are updating,do this for all 3 drivers,remember to choose the right ones for each.

I've been doing just that - I'm turning blue already... but I figured out how to get them to load, I'll post separately.

[beamguy]

HOORAY - I GOT THE NEW DRIVERS TO LOAD!!!

I did the followinging steps...

1) In control panel add/remove programs I removed the existing WDM drivers.

2) On reboot when I get the error saying that it can't find the file I click cancel.

3) I load in the original install CD. When it stops asking for a choice of language I browse to the folder c:\winnt\system32\WFTVFMNT\ and copy the latest driver zip file from leadtek website there.

4) I unzip the file clicking "yes" nine times to say that I want to overwrite the existing file.

5) I then click "OK" on the cd install program to select english and continue.

6) I press "Ignore" nine times when I get the message that the disk image does not agree with the CAB version.

7) Reboot when prompted, then press "cancel" when I get the language choice again (I don't want to install the old PVR program over the new).

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Hope this helps someone else in my predicament...

By the way - the "Inteligent Installer" on the CD does not manage to put a DriverDate entry in the registry; but it can read the files provided by leadtek.