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I've just had a chap bring his system box to me to have an extra 256mb ddr added and XP Home installed. All was lovely except for his hd LED connector was on the wrong pin header, I popped that onto the correct pins without even looking at the manual that he hadn't brought with him because Asus seem to have a habit of putting the hd led pins a short distance away from the block of pins for the front panel. And I got it the right way round first time 
....mmm I built that box ....I wonder how that LED ended up connected to the wrong pins ? ...I digress ........After moving a few of odds and ends from his 8 gb d:\ drive, (40gb hd)into 5x8gb drives), "we" installed XP Home onto his d:\ drive, for dual boot with W98se on his c:\ drive, and all was lovely - drivers went in for everything, ...well almost everything.
First sign of a problem was when I plugged my digital camera into a front panel USB plug hole and got a pop out balloon from the system tray acknowledging that a USB device had been detected and then very shortly after that, another one saying that it had failed. I plugged my camera into one of the rear (ATX block) USB sockets and it was okay. Mass storage device detected / next available drive letter was assigned etc.
When I checked the hardware tree in device manager only four items were listed for USB. i.e. the USB enhanced host controller, and its' corresponding USB root hub were not there. "Shit," was what I thought because this board was a bitch with W98se regarding USB2.0 drivers two years ago, I had to search for ages and fight the machine bloody hard to get those four files that make up the USB 2.0 driver stack installed into W98se. (I haven't used Asus for ages because of this very issue).
There we were, with a new copy of XP Home installed and no bloody USB 2.0 driver installed. I though that surely SP1 would have been slipstreamed into his new copy of XP Home, mine was SP1.
I haven't dug out the manual for that A7V8x-x board from Asus yet but, I seem to remember that the rear USB sockets were only 1.0/1.1 and USB 2.0 was on a pin header that got connected to the case front panel, unlike most boards that can have anything plugged into USB.
Legacy USB support in bios is switched off, that shouldn't make any difference should it ? So does anyone have any knowledge of this bloody board and USB 2.0 drivers for XP Home ?
A year or two ago when I did this system box with W98se in it, it turned out to be the case that Asus had not provided drivers for USB 2.0, and/or had not configured something like an *inf file properly somewhere so that the bloody things would get installed properly from SP1, from MS, that should have had the USB 2.0 driver stack in it (sp1) ...in any event scouring the motherboard cd-rom disk at that time revealed a stupid message from Asus that there was a dispute over the USB 2.0 driver stack, and MS would not allow mootherboard manufacturers to distribute it, and so, (the Asus readme said), USB 2.0 drivers are included with XP sp1 ..or something like that. Most other boards don't seem to cause trouble with those USB2.0 drivers in XP !
Any help would be appreciated. ...am I missing something simple, somewhere, besides a brain ?
regards, Richard
....mmm I built that box ....I wonder how that LED ended up connected to the wrong pins ? ...I digress ........After moving a few of odds and ends from his 8 gb d:\ drive, (40gb hd)into 5x8gb drives), "we" installed XP Home onto his d:\ drive, for dual boot with W98se on his c:\ drive, and all was lovely - drivers went in for everything, ...well almost everything.First sign of a problem was when I plugged my digital camera into a front panel USB plug hole and got a pop out balloon from the system tray acknowledging that a USB device had been detected and then very shortly after that, another one saying that it had failed. I plugged my camera into one of the rear (ATX block) USB sockets and it was okay. Mass storage device detected / next available drive letter was assigned etc.
When I checked the hardware tree in device manager only four items were listed for USB. i.e. the USB enhanced host controller, and its' corresponding USB root hub were not there. "Shit," was what I thought because this board was a bitch with W98se regarding USB2.0 drivers two years ago, I had to search for ages and fight the machine bloody hard to get those four files that make up the USB 2.0 driver stack installed into W98se. (I haven't used Asus for ages because of this very issue).
There we were, with a new copy of XP Home installed and no bloody USB 2.0 driver installed. I though that surely SP1 would have been slipstreamed into his new copy of XP Home, mine was SP1.
I haven't dug out the manual for that A7V8x-x board from Asus yet but, I seem to remember that the rear USB sockets were only 1.0/1.1 and USB 2.0 was on a pin header that got connected to the case front panel, unlike most boards that can have anything plugged into USB.
Legacy USB support in bios is switched off, that shouldn't make any difference should it ? So does anyone have any knowledge of this bloody board and USB 2.0 drivers for XP Home ?
A year or two ago when I did this system box with W98se in it, it turned out to be the case that Asus had not provided drivers for USB 2.0, and/or had not configured something like an *inf file properly somewhere so that the bloody things would get installed properly from SP1, from MS, that should have had the USB 2.0 driver stack in it (sp1) ...in any event scouring the motherboard cd-rom disk at that time revealed a stupid message from Asus that there was a dispute over the USB 2.0 driver stack, and MS would not allow mootherboard manufacturers to distribute it, and so, (the Asus readme said), USB 2.0 drivers are included with XP sp1 ..or something like that. Most other boards don't seem to cause trouble with those USB2.0 drivers in XP !
Any help would be appreciated. ...am I missing something simple, somewhere, besides a brain ?
regards, Richard