USB drivers for windows 98 in windows 2000

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Man what a pain in the butt problem . It all started when
I installed some cheesy USB card reader on to my system
IBM A31 WIN2K prof. After that the USB ports were DOA. I
removed the card from the hardware manager. Tried about 5
different brands of USB mice and still the same error.

Installation failed because a function driver was not
specified for this device instance

I tried using other drivers, but it always went back to
the usb.inf driver in WINNT/INF.
After some research I read that a windows 98 driver may
have been installed for the usb device and that may be the
problem. When I looked at my usb.inf file the version was
$CHICAGO$ which seems to indicate that this may have been
a Win 98 version. So I removed it, but now the errror is
it can't find any suitable drivers for the device. I think
I just need the right usb.inf file I hope and I don't want
to wipe my disk for this one file if the is the problem. I
applied the hot fix for the storage driver, but it was no
help. Anyone have any ideas about this?

Thanks Ron
 
Ron said:
Man what a pain in the butt problem . It all started when
I installed some cheesy USB card reader on to my system
IBM A31 WIN2K prof. After that the USB ports were DOA. I
removed the card from the hardware manager. Tried about 5
different brands of USB mice and still the same error.

Installation failed because a function driver was not
specified for this device instance

I tried using other drivers, but it always went back to
the usb.inf driver in WINNT/INF.
After some research I read that a windows 98 driver may
have been installed for the usb device and that may be the
problem. When I looked at my usb.inf file the version was
$CHICAGO$ which seems to indicate that this may have been
a Win 98 version. So I removed it, but now the errror is
it can't find any suitable drivers for the device. I think
I just need the right usb.inf file I hope and I don't want
to wipe my disk for this one file if the is the problem. I
applied the hot fix for the storage driver, but it was no
help. Anyone have any ideas about this?

Thanks Ron
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I just checked my XP installation and looked at usb.inf

although it also had the $CHICAGO$ signature
but was the correct XP version 5.1
so chances are your win2k file was really ok

you should just extract the file from your win2k cd
then copy if back to the inf folder

then go the the website of the card reader's mfg and see if they have a
win2k
driver
 
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