Belkin F5D7050 network adapter and ASROCK K7VT4A+

[Geoff]

Hi,

Just been reinstalling a friends PC. Athlon XP2600+, 256 meg of memory,
Asrock K7VT4A+ m/b. The operating system is a clean install of XP Home SP2
with all updates/patches applied.

I can't get the PC to recognise the Belkin adapter; when I plug it in to any
of the 4 USB ports on the back of the machine, it just does nothing. The
ports appear to work as I've plugged my memory stick into them and I can
read and write data to it.

I've tried the Belkin adapter on 2 other PC's and it works fine.

Any ideas, as I'm about to give up on it and tell them that they need to buy
a pci wireless card??

Hope you can help

Geoff

 

[Mike T.]

Hi,

Just been reinstalling a friends PC. Athlon XP2600+, 256 meg of memory,
Asrock K7VT4A+ m/b. The operating system is a clean install of XP Home
SP2 with all updates/patches applied.

I can't get the PC to recognise the Belkin adapter; when I plug it in to
any of the 4 USB ports on the back of the machine, it just does nothing.
The ports appear to work as I've plugged my memory stick into them and I
can read and write data to it.

I've tried the Belkin adapter on 2 other PC's and it works fine.

Any ideas, as I'm about to give up on it and tell them that they need to
buy a pci wireless card??

Hope you can help

Geoff

Your mainboard ports are USB 2.0, but they won't function as USB 2.0 until
the proper drivers are installed. Typically, you need to install the
motherboard chipset drivers (download from mainboard manufacturer's web
site) and THEN install USB 2.0 drivers also (download from mainboard
manufacturer's web site). Even if your network adapter is backward
compatible, the USB ports might not be fully functional. So some things
(memory stick) will work and some won't.

NOTE that Windows XP will function fine before the mainboard drivers are
installed. So it's not intuitive that you'd have to install the drivers,
but you need to. -Dave

 

[SteveH]

Your mainboard ports are USB 2.0, but they won't function as USB 2.0 until
the proper drivers are installed. Typically, you need to install the
motherboard chipset drivers (download from mainboard manufacturer's web
site) and THEN install USB 2.0 drivers also (download from mainboard
manufacturer's web site). Even if your network adapter is backward
compatible, the USB ports might not be fully functional. So some things
(memory stick) will work and some won't.

NOTE that Windows XP will function fine before the mainboard drivers are
installed. So it's not intuitive that you'd have to install the drivers,
but you need to. -Dave

AFAIK, XP SP2 does USB2 without additional board driver, at least mine does!

SteveH

 

[Geoff]

Your mainboard ports are USB 2.0, but they won't function as USB 2.0 until
the proper drivers are installed. Typically, you need to install the
motherboard chipset drivers (download from mainboard manufacturer's web
site) and THEN install USB 2.0 drivers also (download from mainboard
manufacturer's web site). Even if your network adapter is backward
compatible, the USB ports might not be fully functional. So some things
(memory stick) will work and some won't.

NOTE that Windows XP will function fine before the mainboard drivers are
installed. So it's not intuitive that you'd have to install the drivers,
but you need to. -Dave

Hi,

Just tried that, VIA chipset drivers from Asrocks website, followed by the
USB2 driver package - no difference I'm afraid.

Every now and again if I repeatedly insert and remove the Belkin adapter, I
get a "USB device not recognised" bubble pop up in the task bar. If I then
try and install drivers, it just throws a wobbly and says that the drivers
I'm trying to get it to install don't math the hardware??

Looks like I might have to tell them to buy a pci card instead??

Geoff

 

[Geoff]

gave up, installed a pci card and it works perfectly.

I've emailed Asrock tech support, but not heard anything, doubt I ever will.

Possibly a USB voltage issue??

may work with a powered hub, but didn't have one to hand.

Thanks for the replies

Geoff