Lexicon CORE2, Service Manual

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Lexicon Studio Core2 Service Manual
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Studio causing potentially severe problems.
To ensure a clean install do the following. WARNING THE FOLLOWING INCLUDES EDITING YOUR
REGISTRY, PROCEED WITH CAUTION.
DO NOT PERFORM THESE STEPS WITHOUT SUPERVISION IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH
THESE PROCEDURES.
1. Before going through this procedure, make a backup of your Registry. To do this go to your START
menu and click on Run. In the dialog box type "regedit" (without the quotation marks), then click OK. On
the Registry menu, click Export Registry File. In the Export Range area, click All to back up your entire
registry. Name the file "Registry backup" and put it on your desktop. Now close out of Regedit.
2. Go into your Control Panel, double click System, then click on the Device Manager tab. Click the plus
sign in the box next to Sound, Video and Game Controllers. Highlight the Lexicon IDS Sound System
and click on REMOVE.
3. Close System properties box.
4. Go into your Control Panel, double click Add/Remove Programs. Select the "Lexicon Studio for Core2"
and click on REMOVE. Select Custom removal. For each screen that comes up, click "Select All" then
Next. On the third screen that comes up you will see that one of the selections reads as follows:
C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase VST24\Vstplugins (or something very similar, depending on the
version of Cubase that you have installed. The main thing is that it ends with Vstplugins). De-select that
entry (otherwise you will remove your entire VST plug ins folder!). Click Finish when the last list has
been selected.
5. To make sure that we have a complete removal run REGEDIT and check the following. Note: You may
not find these items, but if you do delete them.
6. To do this go to your START menu and click on RUN.
7. In the dialog box type "regedit" (without the quotation marks), then click OK.
8. In the registry click on the box next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
9. Click on the box next to ENUM.
10. Then click on the box next to PCI.
11. Look for VEN_1057&DEV_1801. Highlight this folder and delete it.
12. Next, still under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, go down and click on the box next to SYSTEM.
13. Then click on the box next to CURRENTCONTROLSET.
14. Then click on the box next to SERVICES.
15. Then click on the box next to CLASS.
16. Then click on the box next to MEDIA. There you will see a folder or folders with a series of 4 numbers.
Click on each folder until you find the one (or ones) for Lexicon IDS Sound System (in right hand pane).
Delete the folder.
17. Then click on the box next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
18. Click on the box in front of SOFTWARE, then highlight the Lexicon folder and delete it.
19. Next, click on the box next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
20. Click on the box in front of SOFTWARE.
21. Then click on the box in front of ASIO, highlight Lexicon Studio for Core2 and delete it.
22. Close out of Regedit.
23. If you are running Windows95 version A go to C:\Windows\INF. (we are not registered with Microsoft so
Windows 95 renames the inf file to OEMx (x being some number, depending on how many non-
registered OEM devices you have installed). If you have more than one you will need to open the OEMx
files with Wordpad. When you find the Lexicon IDSCore2 inf file, delete it. Also, delete the IDS.vxd file
found under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.
24. If you are running Windows95 version B, C, or Windows98, go to C:\WINDOWS\INF\OTHER and delete
all files referencing Lexicon. Also, delete the IDS.vxd file found under C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.
Reboot your computer and Windows® should find new hardware and ask you if you want to install it. Follow
the installation Wizard.
1. A dialog box called Update Device Driver Wizard will appear saying "This wizard will complete the
installation of PCI multimedia device...". At this point insert the CDROM labeled Lexicon Studio
Software. Then click on NEXT. Windows will start to search the CDROM for drivers. Sometimes
Windows will attempt to search for the drivers in a location other than the CDROM. If that occurs, when