I have an RLink Driver installation problem on Win XP SP3. What can I do?
A. There has recently (around January 2009) been an ‘update’ from Microsoft in the Windows XP SP3 driver installation procedure, that changes the way drivers are selected when there are several candidates. It uses the .inf file date tag to select between the drivers that it finds and chooses the latest (in previous versions it asked which one to take, when it found several). It also always searches on CDs, even when you tell it not to (before the update it searched the CDs only if you asked it to, and only if it did not find a preinstalled driver in DriverStore). As a result, it now tries to use the RLinkWinUSB driver, which is for Vista, when it should use the Jungo driver, which is for XP. The workaround is: Remove the Ride CD from the drive after installing Ride and before plugging in the RLink. Then Windows just takes the Jungo driver that the Ride installer has preinstalled in the DriverStore directory, like it did before the Windows update regardless of the CD in the drive. This
