Guest Bob Stanek Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Recently I notice that any new USB device I install (like flash drive, camera) is not automatically recognized by XP as it was in the past. Related is when I go to Control Panel, Scanners & Camera Wizard, Install new device: what happens on a good XP system is a list of all devices is shown, my window come up with "unable to find any drivers..." The drivers are all there, so something in the registry I guess is corrupted. Suggestions?
Guest Uwe Sieber Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Re: USB Drivers not recognized Bob Stanek wrote: > Recently I notice that any new USB device I install (like flash drive, > camera) is not automatically recognized by XP as it was in the past. Related > is when I go to Control Panel, Scanners & Camera Wizard, Install new device: > what happens on a good XP system is a list of all devices is shown, my window > come up with "unable to find any drivers..." The drivers are all there, so > something in the registry I guess is corrupted. > Suggestions? http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#xp_asks_for_drivers
Guest Opinicus Posted July 22, 2008 Posted July 22, 2008 Re: USB Drivers not recognized "Uwe Sieber" <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote > http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.htm Thanks for the link and page Uwe. There's some very useful info there and the little "DriveCleanup" utility is just what I've been looking for... -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com
Guest Tecknomage Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 Re: USB Drivers not recognized On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:37:19 +0300, "Opinicus" <gezgin@spamcop.net> wrote: > "Uwe Sieber" <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote > > > http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.htm > > Thanks for the link and page Uwe. There's some very useful info there and > the little "DriveCleanup" utility is just what I've been looking for... Since the original text was not included I cannot be sure of the exact context. But, when it comes to USB drivers (or any other chipset drivers for your motherboard) there is something to be aware of. If Windows finds it has a matching driver in its *generic* list, it will load those. The New Hardware Wizard nor Update Driver will work because Windows sees no change in hardware. SOME chipset drivers have to be manually installed and forced to overwrite Windows installed drivers. The latest Intel Chipset drivers are an example. The latest Intel Chipset drivers come in a compressed Installer-EXE. Problem, if you run it as is you MAY NOT get all drivers installed. Turns out, if you read the text at their download site, you should extract all files in the Installer-EXE (WinZIP will do this)then run.. setup.exe -overall .....that "overall" switch will force the Intel Chipset drivers to overwrite what Windows installed. I had to do this for several Dell desktops at work because there were no USB2 drivers listed in Device Manager AND these Dells DID have USB2. After using the above procedure the USB2 drivers were properly installed. -- ======== Tecknomage ======== Computer Systems Specialist San Diego, CA
Guest Opinicus Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 Re: USB Drivers not recognized "Tecknomage" <tecknode@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:pi7e84du00i28j0115ckgdh4ps2797ga5f@4ax.com... > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:37:19 +0300, "Opinicus" <gezgin@spamcop.net> > wrote: >> "Uwe Sieber" <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote >> > http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.htm >> Thanks for the link and page Uwe. There's some very useful info there and >> the little "DriveCleanup" utility is just what I've been looking for... > Since the original text was not included I cannot be sure of the exact > context. I was thanking Uwe for the link to the usbtrouble_e.htm page. It addresses a number of other problems in addition to that of USB drivers not being recognized. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com
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