Mindstorms and XP $25.00 reward, please help solve the puzzle

"RG" wrote in news:AyYnb.121993$a16.8359@lakeread01:

RG - I too had some problems installing the tower on my XP PCs, but eventually I got it working fine. It was some time ago, and I don't remember the exact errors I got, but I hope the following sketchy notes help.

The main thing you should know is that the installation instructions that say to ignore XP's helpful attempts to configure the tower when first plugged in are bogus - ignore them. You can always uninstall later if you're not convinced

• Uninstall the tower as Bob Fay has already suggested
• Reboot PC

• Plug tower into USB port

• New device wizard tries to find a device driver - you need to tell it that you have the disk, or to search in a particular location or some such, don't remember exactly - but insert Lego CD in drive and give that as the location

• You may need to poke around the CD (within the wizard prompts) to find the file that it wants if it's not in the root directory of the CD

• Installation of tower should complete once it finds the driver - you'll get the little message in the system tray telling you that your hardware is ready to use

• Now try installing the Lego software. From this point on, all was smooth sailing for me - I've installed on XP/Home Edition and XP/Professional and found no differences - both work fine, as long as I let XP install the drivers before I dealt with the Lego software.

Hope this helps and that it works for you,

KW

ps: If it does, then keep the $25 reward - but, instead, promise that you'll never, ever, ever top-post on Usenet again. That's payment enough for me. If you need an explanation, Google for 'top-posting'.

Kevin,

I was not aware of top posting. I am sorry for doing it. I included the previous emails so that there was history to the problem/path that I was having. I thought that it was good to do it. Anyway, I will try what you suggested tomorrow. If you won't accept the reward, maybe I could send it to your favoite charity. Thanks again for your help.

Top-posting is an infraction imagined by people who don't get enough fiber.