USB flash drives immediately reconnect.

[Guest Imp]

Hi all,

 

I installed 2000, SP4, VIA Hyperion 5.12 and video driver on a MSI KT4V

board. It has a KT400 chipset which isn't the most compatible bit of

hardware (never got a Promise TX2 to run with decent speeds on it).

 

The problem is that USB flash drives when disconnected are immediately

connected again!

Whether I choose "Stop USB mass storage device" or "unplug or eject

hardware" the drive will disappear from explorer, it's LED flashes off and

back on and the drive appears in explorer again. It's not just cosmetic, I

can use it. I do however get the "save to unplug" message.

This does not happen with USB hard disks.

 

Google is not my friend. 8+ hours of searching got me no further than

"assign IRQ to USB controller in the BIOS" which I can't. There's some old

VIA USB patches for SP3 and some "Filter drivers" that don't help. Of

course it worked under XP and the drives work on an other computer.

 

I just did a fresh install of 2000, SP4 and Hyperion 5.15. Now there's

a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller in Other Devices. I do NOT want

2000 to search for a driver because then I'll get WINNT\inf\usb.inf (I

think that it was) and the above mentioned problem.

 

I'd really appreciate some advice on how to get USB working.

 

Imp