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As some of you already know, my setup was out of action for the past week.
After a very helpful chat to technical support creamware germany.

It turns out that the eeprom with my codes in it had been completely erased, so I needed complete new codes.

This happened after a doing a two clean installs one of xp one of 98 lite.

Now I have seen windows 98 hardware detection destroy a lightwave dongle.
My logical conclusion is that it also wiped my eeprom.

And since I have no devices that are not plugnplay it would make sense to disable the detection the next time I do an install.

There is a command switch that does this, when you are about to install w98se does anybody know it?

Also i can't remember but does winxp have this same hardware detection routine? If yes can it be disabled?

Well I've anwsered my own question.

But for those who need it http://www.ahinc.com/support/windows.htm
Gives a list of setup switches.
The one I need for win98se
is setup /p b

Any ideas for XP?

windows erased eproms? You need special hardware to re-write or erase a dongle, it would only get fried if there was faulty hardware involved.

Did the lightwave dongle and the other incident both happen on the same computer? i would not use that motherboard anymore.

I have installed win98, NT, 2000, and XP on plenty of computers with 3dsMAX and other dongles, Video capture, and other cards with eproms and i have never ever seen anything like that happen!

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: defex on 2002-04-04 08:29 ]</font>

No the fried dongle was ages ago, fortunately enough it wasn't my computer or my dongle for that matter, I was just an innocent bystander! It has been confirmed to happen in very rare cases. But if you reinstall on a regular basis take your dongles off!

My conclusion about my pulsar I made based on the fact that.
a) main music partition was working fine until I did a reinstall on a different partition, came back to main partition pulsar would not accept my codes.
b) Creamware tech support told me my eeprom had got erased. They gave me new codes a now it works fine again.

I'm just saying somehow it got corrupted/erased and the most likely suspect was hardware detection, it could however have just been a coincidence.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: remixme on 2002-04-04 12:58 ]</font>