USB Drivers not recognized

[Bob Stanek]

Recently I notice that any new USB device I install (like flash drive,
camera) is not automatically recognized by XP as it was in the past. Related
is when I go to Control Panel, Scanners & Camera Wizard, Install new device:
what happens on a good XP system is a list of all devices is shown, my window
come up with "unable to find any drivers..." The drivers are all there, so
something in the registry I guess is corrupted.
Suggestions?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Recently I notice that any new USB device I install (like flash drive,
camera) is not automatically recognized by XP as it was in the past. Related
is when I go to Control Panel, Scanners & Camera Wizard, Install new device:
what happens on a good XP system is a list of all devices is shown, my window
come up with "unable to find any drivers..." The drivers are all there, so
something in the registry I guess is corrupted.
Suggestions?

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#xp_asks_for_drivers

 

[Opinicus]

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.htm

Thanks for the link and page Uwe. There's some very useful info there and
the little "DriveCleanup" utility is just what I've been looking for...

 

[Tecknomage]

Thanks for the link and page Uwe. There's some very useful info there and
the little "DriveCleanup" utility is just what I've been looking for...

Since the original text was not included I cannot be sure of the exact
context.

But, when it comes to USB drivers (or any other chipset drivers for
your motherboard) there is something to be aware of.

If Windows finds it has a matching driver in its *generic* list, it
will load those. The New Hardware Wizard nor Update Driver will work
because Windows sees no change in hardware.

SOME chipset drivers have to be manually installed and forced to
overwrite Windows installed drivers. The latest Intel Chipset drivers
are an example.

The latest Intel Chipset drivers come in a compressed Installer-EXE.
Problem, if you run it as is you MAY NOT get all drivers installed.
Turns out, if you read the text at their download site, you should
extract all files in the Installer-EXE (WinZIP will do this)then run..

setup.exe -overall

.....that "overall" switch will force the Intel Chipset drivers to
overwrite what Windows installed.

I had to do this for several Dell desktops at work because there were
no USB2 drivers listed in Device Manager AND these Dells DID have
USB2. After using the above procedure the USB2 drivers were properly
installed.

 

[Opinicus]

Since the original text was not included I cannot be sure of the exact
context.

I was thanking Uwe for the link to the usbtrouble_e.htm page. It addresses a
number of other problems in addition to that of USB drivers not being
recognized.