> Everytime I uninstall it, and reboot, this non existent Yamaha DS1 sound card installs itself.  This is preventing my
> real sound card that I just bought (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) from installing itself.  The old sound card managed to
> co-exist with the imaginary one, but the Santa Cruz won't.  I've gone through the registry and removed all references to
> Yamaha (some keys wouldn't delete until I changed their permissions).  That takes 30 minutes...then on the next reboot
> they/it reinstall.  I've uninstalled the Yamaha in Device Manager but it comes right back.
>
> Is there a way I can prevent plug and play from reinstalling this Yamaha sound card.  It is not present on the
> motherboard, so I can't remove it.  This is an old computer, P2 350mHz, running Windows 2000.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is driving me nuts.
>
>
> jc
>
>

"jbclem" <jbcl***@charter.net> wrote in message
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> Everytime I uninstall it, and reboot, this non existent Yamaha DS1 sound
> card installs itself.  This is preventing my
> real sound card that I just bought (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) from
> installing itself.  The old sound card managed to
> co-exist with the imaginary one, but the Santa Cruz won't.  I've gone
> through the registry and removed all references to
> Yamaha (some keys wouldn't delete until I changed their permissions).
> That takes 30 minutes...then on the next reboot
> they/it reinstall.  I've uninstalled the Yamaha in Device Manager but it
> comes right back.
>
> Is there a way I can prevent plug and play from reinstalling this Yamaha
> sound card.  It is not present on the
> motherboard, so I can't remove it.  This is an old computer, P2 350mHz,
> running Windows 2000.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...this is driving me nuts.
>
>
> jc
>
>