XP Pro USB2.0 AsusA7V8x-x

[Richard Keirle]

Can anyone tell me how to get USB2.0 drivers for WinXP (SP1 is installed!!)

Have gone round and round in cirles for hours, Asus supplies USB2.0 drivers
for all Windows platforms, on the motherboard cd but, not for XP. There's
just two options on this cd's menu - Via 4in1 drivers and USB2.0. Selecting
the latter just fires up a Notepad file explaining that due to a legal
issue, one has to get and install them oneself by installing XP SP1

XP detects the USB2.0 hardware on the board, and several filenames whistle
past but, stops and needs to be pointed to the location of usbehci.sys -
one of the four EHCI files that I even managed to find in a *.cab file on
the hard-disk several days ago. USB 2.0 host controller moved from "Other
devices" node in Device Manager, and appeared at the top of the USB
tree/node at the bottom of the hardware list in Device Manager but, still
with a little yellow circle and black exclamation point to show "drivers not
correctly installed." Since zero-filling the hard-disk and reinstalling xp
and sp1 , I can't even find that *.cab anymore.

Keep getting stuck with usbehci.sys not found and I don't know where to
browse for it.

Have looked at:-
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q329632
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/jones/02august05.asp

.....but am getting nowhere now !

Any help much appreciated

regards, Richard

 

[Peter]

My guess is your mobo has onboard USB2.0(?)... had a simliliar problem with
usb although mine was an ASUS board, i had to buy an add-in pci card for
USB2.0 and the card itself was the problem.. It was cheap.. New USB 2.0 pci
card solved the problem; i wold never have thought the hardware was the
problem, but it was.. Check Device Manager to see if you have listed an
'enhanced' controllerUSB entry in there, that is the key....

 

[Peter]

FootNote; The chip on my card was VIA, and Microsoft early on claimed
support for the NEC standard, which my NEW card had... With this being a
more-or-less 'universal' standard (USB2.0) i was surprised it might be the
chip from VIA that was the hassle..