I've searched the forum and can't find a solution to this problem. Heres what I've done so far, its a long list:
A while back I uninstalled Calibre and installed the Sony software (partially), while it was installing the PC crashed (XP-SP1) (due to something else).
I uninstalled the Sony software, using windows add/remove programs, then deleted the folders, searched for drivers and deleted them, etc.
Today I connected my PRS500 directly into a USB port (not a hub) and windows tried to install the Sony driver, which didn't exist.
I forgot to mention something, when windows looked for the driver and there was none, I renamed the calibre driver to match the name of the sony driver, then installed it.
It worked for one session and then stopped when I reconnected the reader
After that I cleaned the fake sony driver from the system and ...
I went into the device manager and it had a yellow icon on the device. I uninstalled the driver.
- Then installed Calibre, once with the reader plugged in, then another time with it disconnected, calibre wouldn't see the reader. (restarts in-between)
- Uninstalled Calibre
- reinstalled then uninstalled Sony connect (without reader connected)
- soft reset
- installed calibre once without the device connected (restarted), once with it connected
Zone Alarm not running during all this and no other devices connected
Everytime I restart the computer the Sony driver installs and I can't see the reader in calibre
can someone help me out here?