ongoing "ghost" driver issue

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I've been fighting an ongoing issue with my Compaq "idiot box" reloading deleted ati drivers (MB has onboard ATIX200 vidio). Altogeather there are 4 of them. The one actually causing the problems is ati2cqag.dll which is the central memory manager/que server module. It causes "EKG like" ongoing spikes in my varience which create very serious warpyness. I've used NFR and DCpro which work for a while....then the driver(s) reload as quickly as I delete them. I'm guessing that there has to be a registry entry causing this (or would it be in config.sys??). Any help greatly appreciated on how to locate the trigger for this reload....or other solution.

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from sysinternals. It's a utility that allows realtime monitoring of your registry. Basically it shows all realtime activity....so when I fire up NFR (nasty file remover) it shows all the activity...including the deletion of the offending dll's.....which then magically reappear with no corresponding activity in the registry???!!. Now I'm really confused....

Regmon seems like a pretty nice utility so I added the link here.....
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html

[NHawk]

Have you turned off the onboard video in your BIOS? If not, that would cause a re-load of the drivers.

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Originally posted by NHawk
Have you turned off the onboard video in your BIOS? If not, that would cause a re-load of the drivers.

Yes but I'll double check to be sure. I'm pretty sure that compaq has some type of "save the idiot" process that autoloads. I used a utility (sadly cant remember which) that goes thru all your process's and analyses them. Guessing some windows security restart let the grmlins back in.

any suggestions (I have FS autostart for sure) on good utilities for this type of stuff. As a general rule I think PC registry cleaners are disasters waiting to happen....

[OOZ662]

There's a second partition on your hard drive that contains all of the drivers for the Compaq computer. It's where the computer is copying the driver from. If you can find it and delete it on that partition (or go into safe mode and format the damn thing) the computer should operate normally.

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Originally posted by OOZ662
There's a second partition on your hard drive that contains all of the drivers for the Compaq computer. It's where the computer is copying the driver from. If you can find it and delete it on that partition (or go into safe mode and format the damn thing) the computer should operate normally.

AHHHH......thanks