USB Stick

[Fernand Thill]

I have since many time a 8 G USB 2.0 Stick from EMTC. It really works or
worked fine
My recent problem: I have 2 PC's with USB 2.0 PCI cards built in. Since
..several days, on one of them, let's name it the first,, when I plug it in,
it shows the message: this device could perform faster if you conect it to a
2.0 port (but it is) Click here to see the available ports. When I click
nothing shows up. But even more: windows explorer and my computer no longer
work , no way to see the stick. On the second PC all works well and I can
even share the stick with the first one as they are networked. Besides that
external USB's HD 2.0 work well on the 1rst one.
I need your valued help.
Thanks in advance
Fernand THILL

 

[BillW50]

In Fernand Thill typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:26:28 +0200:

I have since many time a 8 G USB 2.0 Stick from EMTC. It really works
or worked fine
My recent problem: I have 2 PC's with USB 2.0 PCI cards built in.
Since .several days, on one of them, let's name it the first,, when I
plug it in, it shows the message: this device could perform faster if
you conect it to a 2.0 port (but it is) Click here to see the
available ports. When I
click nothing shows up. But even more: windows explorer and my
computer no longer work , no way to see the stick. On the second PC
all works well and I can even share the stick with the first one as
they are networked. Besides that external USB's HD 2.0 work well on
the 1rst one. I need your valued help.
Thanks in advance
Fernand THILL

Well it sounds like a defective USB PCI card to me. But since you have
two, I would swap the two to make sure.

 

[JS]

I have since many time a 8 G USB 2.0 Stick from EMTC. It really works or
worked fine
My recent problem: I have 2 PC's with USB 2.0 PCI cards built in. Since
.several days, on one of them, let's name it the first,, when I plug it
in, it shows the message: this device could perform faster if you conect
it to a 2.0 port (but it is) Click here to see the available ports. When I
click nothing shows up. But even more: windows explorer and my computer no
longer work , no way to see the stick. On the second PC all works well and
I can even share the stick with the first one as they are networked.
Besides that external USB's HD 2.0 work well on the 1rst one.
I need your valued help.
Thanks in advance
Fernand THILL

Try re-installing the drivers for the card.
Before you do, check to see if there is a newer driver
from the manufacture's web site and if so download it.

Do this as follows.
1) Use 'Device Manager' to delete the driver.
2) Turn off the PC and remove the AC power cord.
3) Remove the USB card.
4) Attach AC power cord and reboot the PC.
5) Check Device Manager to verify the USB Card is not listed.
6) Again turn off the PC and remove the AC power cord.
7) Re-install the USB Card.
8) Again attach AC power cord and reboot the PC.
9) Windows should display a Found new hardware message.
10) Re-install the USB card driver.

 

[Fernand Thill]

In Fernand Thill typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:26:28 +0200:

Well it sounds like a defective USB PCI card to me. But since you have
two, I would swap the two to make sure.

And this dispite the fact that other USB devices like HD work well?

 

[BillW50]

In Fernand Thill typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:34:59 +0200:

And this dispite the fact that other USB devices like HD work well?

Yes, because this one USB PCI doesn't seem to like the power surge of
the stick. And are those USB hard drives self powered? Or do they draw
power from the USB port as well? Regardless, the stick seems to draw
more anyway.

 

[Fernand Thill]

In Fernand Thill typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:34:59 +0200:

Yes, because this one USB PCI doesn't seem to like the power surge of the
stick. And are those USB hard drives self powered? Or do they draw power
from the USB port as well? Regardless, the stick seems to draw more
anyway.

I connect them all directly or through a 4 USB 2.0 HUB with external
Power-Supply 5V 1,2 A. But as i told you the stick functionned correctly
during monthes.
But perhaps that i missed an information, seeing no direct relation: My
motherboard is a Intel Itanium, without BIOS but with EFI. I noticed
recently that when it boots, first there is a message Invalid Boot.ini file,
followed by message booting from C:/windows. Perhaps that I oversaw this
very quick message all the time, I paid more attention since the problem
with the stick

 

[BillW50]

In Fernand Thill typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:08:36 +0200:

I connect them all directly or through a 4 USB 2.0 HUB with external
Power-Supply 5V 1,2 A. But as i told you the stick functionned
correctly during monthes.

Oh you didn't say this. Remove the hub and plug it directly into the USB
PCI card.

But perhaps that i missed an information, seeing no direct relation:
My motherboard is a Intel Itanium, without BIOS but with EFI. I
noticed recently that when it boots, first there is a message Invalid
Boot.ini file, followed by message booting from C:/windows. Perhaps
that I oversaw this very quick message all the time, I paid more
attention since the problem with the stick

Oh that doesn't sound good. Does this message still popup with all USB
devices disconnected too?

 

[Fernand Thill]

In Fernand Thill typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:08:36 +0200:

Oh you didn't say this. Remove the hub and plug it directly into the USB
PCI card.


Oh that doesn't sound good. Does this message still popup with all USB
devices disconnected too?

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2
Yes, I unplugged all USB,inclusive hub, reboot, the message 2invalis
boot.ini file" still appeared. But as usually the start was OK

But when replugging a USB HD disk the message "this device can...blabla.."
was there
By the way I went to a PC-shop this afternoon with the stick. They tried it
on 2 of there PC's: the 1rst one crashed, the 2 one no problem, the stick
was readable. Now there are 4 PC's involved: 2 OK, 2 in the shit. My latin
is at the end.

 

[Fernand Thill]

In Fernand Thill typed on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:08:36 +0200:

Oh you didn't say this. Remove the hub and plug it directly into the USB
PCI card.


Oh that doesn't sound good. Does this message still popup with all USB
devices disconnected too?

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2
Yes, i unplugged all USB, reboot, the message "Invalid boot.ini file" still
remains. But the reboot from C: is OK

By the way, I went to a PC-shop with the stick, they tried witeh 2 PC's: the
first crashed, the 2nd was OK and the the stick accessible.They don't have
any reasonnable explication.

 

[JS]

Copy the files off the USB drive.
Reformat the USB drive.
Copy the files back.

Now see if it crashes or doesn't work
on some PCs.

 

[Fernand Thill]

I have since many time a 8 G USB 2.0 Stick from EMTC. It really works or
worked fine
My recent problem: I have 2 PC's with USB 2.0 PCI cards built in. Since
.several days, on one of them, let's name it the first,, when I plug it
in, it shows the message: this device could perform faster if you conect
it to a 2.0 port (but it is) Click here to see the available ports. When I
click nothing shows up. But even more: windows explorer and my computer no
longer work , no way to see the stick. On the second PC all works well and
I can even share the stick with the first one as they are networked.
Besides that external USB's HD 2.0 work well on the 1rst one.
I need your valued help.
Thanks in advance
Fernand THILL

Reformating the stick didn't change anything: 1 PC is OK, 1 PC continues to
crash

 

[JS]

Reformating the stick didn't change anything: 1 PC is OK, 1 PC continues
to crash

Can you remove the card from the PC that the
USB device works fine on and temporarily install
it in the PC that has the problems?

 

[Fernand Thill]

Even after reformating one PC crashes

 

[JS]

You even after swapping the USB cards it still crashes.

Does it crash on the same PC or does the crash now
occur on the PC where you swapped the card to?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Even after reformating one PC crashes

Please quote enough of the message you're responding to to put your
reply into context (as I did above). Many newsgroup participants (me,
for example) don't save already-read messages and a message without a
quote is likely to be completely unintelligible to many people, as
yours above was to me.