Help please ive killed DirectX

[adfinni]

Well i was getting some stupid 'internal driver error' that kept crashing css as the server loaded. it appeared randomly one day when i switched my PC on, so today i decided to re-install directx.

I saw some info saying that if you delete the directx folder key from the registry then when you restart XP will reload direcxt 8.1 then you can update again. But after doing that the dxdiag box shows directx level as 'Not found', and in the standard DirectX menu in the control panel it says i have version 0.0 :eek: :(

I tried to download the latest october update and it comes up with the error shows in the pic below. Ive also included the error log.


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[12/05/06 10:58:29] module: dxupdate(Sep 28 2006), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 175, function: GetDXVersion

Failed API: RegOpenKeyEx()
Error: (2) - The system cannot find the file specified.



Current DirectX may be a older version which does not have directx key in the registry.

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[12/05/06 10:58:29] module: dxupdate(Sep 28 2006), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 4504, function: DirectXUpdateDownloadPlugIn

GetDXVersion() failed.

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[12/05/06 10:58:30] module: DXWSetup(Sep 28 2006), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 386, function: DownloadPlugIn

DirectXUpdateDownloadPlugIn() failed.

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[12/05/06 10:58:30] module: DXWSetup(Sep 28 2006), file: psheets.cpp, line: 498, function: PreinstDlgProc

DownloadPlugIn() failed.

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[12/05/06 11:05:53] module: dxupdate(Sep 28 2006), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 175, function: GetDXVersion

Failed API: RegOpenKeyEx()
Error: (2) - The system cannot find the file specified.



Current DirectX may be a older version which does not have directx key in the registry.

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[12/05/06 11:05:53] module: dxupdate(Sep 28 2006), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 4504, function: DirectXUpdateDownloadPlugIn

GetDXVersion() failed.

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[12/05/06 11:05:54] module: DXWSetup(Sep 28 2006), file: dxupdate.cpp, line: 386, function: DownloadPlugIn

DirectXUpdateDownloadPlugIn() failed.

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[12/05/06 11:05:54] module: DXWSetup(Sep 28 2006), file: psheets.cpp, line: 498, function: PreinstDlgProc

DownloadPlugIn() failed.


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What can i do to fix this, any help would be much appreciated?

[illidan]

try this http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/DirectX-Eradicator.shtml

and then install it again

[lawrywild]

try safe mode?

ps: what xp theme is that?

[nn_step]

reinstall it and then for the love of God please do some stability tests to make sure it isn't simple data corruption.