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Hi Greg,
Just to be sure, are these the instructions you followed?
Manual Uninstall
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Plug your camera in, open device manager and right click on the entry for your camera then select uninstall. If there's a check box to delete driver files, tick it then click ok.
Look in
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\UMDF (for 64bit)
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers\UMDF (for 32bit)
for a file called SXCCD.dll and delete it if it still remains.
Unplug your camera.
Open a cmd prompt (type cmd into the start "search for programs and files", right click on the cmd.exe and run as administrator ) and run
pnputil.exe -e | more
browse the list it returns for one that says
"Driver package provider : Starlight Xpress Ltd"
"Class : Universal Serial Bus devices"
note the published name, such as oem12.inf (actual number will vary)
Now type,
pnputil -f -d oem12.inf
(Be sure to use the correct oem number, 12 is just an example)
Repeat the above until you find no more entries.
Reboot.
There is also this statement on the SX website:
If you are using the supplied SX software, you will need to assign 'Administrator' rights to it, or disable 'UAC' in the Windows security settings. Otherwise it cannot write a temporary file to drive C and you will get the message 'Unable to create bitmap file' or similar, when running it.
Not sure if you ever get the opportunity to "install the software as administrator" but that might make some difference. I know I could not install Focus Max without doing that. Also, did you reboot before reinstallation? Perhaps one other thing you could try is to roll your Win7 machine back in time before you ever tried to load the SX drivers. That might insure a clean installation.
It is so frustrating when something that ought to be simple turns into a nightmare!!!! Best of luck.
Peter
PS It's odd that the X2 driver doesn't like TSX in WinXP. Thanks for pointing out the CCDSoft driver on the SX website. I'd missed it somehow. So far, though, I've had no issues running it through ASCOM with CCDSoft. Pity also that CCDSoft cannot deal with 7 filters (or at least I don't know how to do that!).
I tried using my camera last night for the first time on NGC1365. I managed a single 3 minute exposure at .5 arc-sec (barlow + TEC140). It showed great promise and then the clouds rolled in as I was trying to go for 5 min. Yikes.
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