First, when you installed the hub, did you get a new hardware screen with Win 98 installing the software for it?  If you look in device manager under Universal Serial Bus can you find the hub.  If so, click on properties to see if it's working OK.  If all that is fine, boot into safe mode to see if you have multiple installs of it in device manager.  Windows often does that, and you'll never know unless you're in safe mode. If you find multiple instances, highlight and remove them all, shut down your computer, unplug the hub and everything plugged into it.  On restart, plug the hub back in (with nothing plugged into it) and let windows reinstall it.  After that, you can reinstall all your USB devices, keeping in mind that each one will only run on the port you install it in with Win 98.  If after that you still have the problem, boot into safe mode again, then in device manager remove the universal serial bus controller and do a restart.  Windows will reinstall it, then you can once more try to install the hub by itself.  Possibly you have a corrupt file in your USB controller.  If you have already tried all the above with belkin tech, forget it.


>
>I'm running two printers and a Microsoft optical wireless mouse off a Belkin
>4 port USB hub.
>
>At every bootup Windows fails to see the hub...I have to unplug all
>connectors from the hub....replug them, then everything is 'seen' and works
>OK.
>
>I contacted Belkin...they suspected the hub and sent me a new one...but the
>problem remains. Belkin tell me my USB controller is known to be "good".
>
>I've put up with this situation for some time...when I only had the printers
>plugged, as I often don't need them active....but now I've added the mouse
>I'm fed up with the constant unplugging/replugging.
>
>My setup : 400 Mhz PII, 256Mb memory, Win98SE, Motherboard Gigabyte GA686BX,
>Award Bios flashed to latest version.

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