SFP installation problem :(

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:56 am

Due to a system upgrade I want to reinstall SFP. I have the 3.1c full version installer but when I doubleclick the setup icon, nothing happens! It seems to start up for a split second then *poof*.
What's going on? I installed the aspi layer btw.

Jngaelin · Post by **Jngaelin** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:21 am

I got this problem when i switched from win98 to WinXP. I presume you're using WinXP.

I wasn'tt able to install SFP due to this problem you're describing. After installing a service pack everything worked as a charm.

Though, i do not now what the problem was, and i still don't know how it actuall got solved.

This might not help mutch...just thaught you should know.

BTW.
Did you download SFP 3.1c from CW or do you have it on CD ?
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King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:56 am

I downloaded it from the CW site.
And yes I do use XP, and it's updated to the latest service pack.

Of course, I have installed SFP before on this same machine so I don't understand why I can't install it now.

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:29 pm

It seems some reg entries of the previous SFP installation made the setup impossible. I used regedit to remove them and now it works

AndreD · Post by **AndreD** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 7:20 am

dezip first?

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 11:28 am

hey, I'm not stupid!

Anyway, read my last message and you'll see I already solved the problem.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 4:54 am

King of Snake wrote:

It seems some reg entries of the previous SFP installation made the setup impossible. I used regedit to remove them and now it works

Can you remember which ones? It might be helpful to post more details, in case somebody else encounters this problem.

Royston

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:08 am

Well, in RegEdit (you should be able to download this somewhere, use Google!) you see list of registry entries connected to certain programs. There was only one for SFP.
The thing is, I hadn't been able to properly uninstall SFP, because I got a new harddrive and the driveletter changed for the drive that had SFP on it. This gave some problems so that's why I wanted to reinstall it. But because of the changed driveletter the uninstall wouldn't work so I just deleted the folder. But this left the registry entry intact preventing the new installation from working.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:40 am

Ah. Gotcha. (Regedit is part of Windows, btw).

Royston

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 11:40 am

sorry, I actually meant RegCleaner, not regedit.

Post by **garyb** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:05 pm

for everyday use,DON'T use regcleaner as it deletes your asio entries.use easycleaner(it's freeware).....

Ralf · Post by **Ralf** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:17 pm

Hi King of Snake

a good tip. I did never know this before.
Still you know, which entries you've removed in your registry ?

cheers
Ralf
( tanx for makink my job easyer .
Maybe you have the time to write to rb@creamware.de ).

Mostly this can be fixed by installing the MS service pack, updating the aspi driver ( you can get it at adaptec.com

On 2004-01-31 12:29, King of Snake wrote:
It seems some reg entries of the previous SFP installation made the setup impossible. I used regedit to remove them and now it works