Hi,

I notice this topic has come up before so I hope someone could help. I
have also posted recently about problems with my onboard LAN card and
now I'm having issues with my USB.

I have Win XP SP1 installed as well as the drivers from the CD that
came with the motherboard. There were seperate drivers for USB for
some reason. I installed those drivers and have purchased an external
hard driver chassis that connect via USB2. It works fine on my PC at
work which is a different motherboard but also Win XP SP1. But at home
when I connect the USB cable it says that hardware failed to install
and in device manager it is listed as "Unknown device".

On the previous thread it was mentioned that perhaps one would not
need the seperate drivers and the ones from SP1 would be fine. Someone
else mentioned they had solved the problem by reinstalling and I
assume they meant they reinstalled Win XP and SP1 but not the USB2
drivers provided on the CD? I would reluctantly do this as I already
have a lot of software installed and it took me a while to get the
system to the current state. Is there an alternative method?

(E-Mail Removed) (Scott Head) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Hi,
>
> I notice this topic has come up before so I hope someone could help. I
> have also posted recently about problems with my onboard LAN card and
> now I'm having issues with my USB.
>
> I have Win XP SP1 installed as well as the drivers from the CD that
> came with the motherboard. There were seperate drivers for USB for
> some reason. I installed those drivers and have purchased an external
> hard driver chassis that connect via USB2. It works fine on my PC at
> work which is a different motherboard but also Win XP SP1. But at home
> when I connect the USB cable it says that hardware failed to install
> and in device manager it is listed as "Unknown device".
>
> On the previous thread it was mentioned that perhaps one would not
> need the seperate drivers and the ones from SP1 would be fine. Someone
> else mentioned they had solved the problem by reinstalling and I
> assume they meant they reinstalled Win XP and SP1 but not the USB2
> drivers provided on the CD? I would reluctantly do this as I already
> have a lot of software installed and it took me a while to get the
> system to the current state. Is there an alternative method?


Hello,

I managed to solve my problem so I thought I'd post here. From device
manager I uninstalled all the USB devices. I then reinstalled SP1 and
restarted the machine. New hardware was detected and the drivers for
it were installed automatically. I powered down my PC and brought it
in to work to test out the external hard driver chassis (as I had left
it here). Booted up and plugged the drive in and it worked fine. I
guess it must have been the USB drivers that came with the nVidia CD
that I installed. Anyway that may help someone else.

Cheers