USB Drivers not recognized

[Guest Bob Stanek]

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]

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]

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...

 

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Bob

http://www.kanyak.com

[Guest Tecknomage]

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.

 

 

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======== Tecknomage ========

Computer Systems Specialist

San Diego, CA

[Guest Opinicus]

Re: USB Drivers not recognized

 

"Tecknomage" <tecknode@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message

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> 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.

 

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Bob

http://www.kanyak.com