Some device drivers need to be installed BEFORE the hardware is installed.
Un-install the drivers, take out the card, then re-install the drivers and
then put the card in and let it find it that way.
Just a thought

Dave Jones
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Lore" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] USB drivers for Win98


> Hi,
>
> Does the board in question have USB built in?  Did you Check the BIOS and
> try and disable it?
> Did you try a different chipset USB card?  Is it a USB1.1 or USB 2.0 card?
>  What chipset is on the card?
>
> Did you try swapping the sound cards and video cards between the two
boards
> and try to narrow down the item causing the conflict?  Sometimes just
> placing the card in a different PCI slot may clear up problems like this.
>
> Unfortunatley not everything in the market place, plays well together.
>
> Actually, it is surprising that things work as well as they do, with all
> the different software and hardware there is out there.
>
>
>
> At 06:28 PM 02/21/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >I ran into a problem on an older (P166) computer with Windows 98SE. The
> >Win98SE is a clean install with no application software yet installed.
> >When I add a USB card, the system detects the new hardware properly, but
> >when it tries to add the driver, I hangs. I tried several time to get it
> >installed, but no luck. The same card installed on a very similar P120
> >system with no such problems. I can't finish the boot when the board is
> >in place because Win98 insists on adding the drivers and we are back to
> >the lockup again. Should I assign specific IRQs to the PCI slot in BIOS?
> >There is a Diamond Stealth 64 PCI video, and an ISA Microsoft sound
> >board in it. Any suggestions?
> >
> >Peter
>
> God Bless America!
>
> Joe Lore
> MicroComputerCenter, Inc.
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