Re: USB ports are not recognizing anything. controller not installed

From: Cari \(MS MVP\) (Newsgroups1_at_coribright.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:05:30 -0700

Go to the website of the motherboard manufacturer, download and install the
chipset drivers for your model of board 

-- 
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com
"A Gearhead in need of help" <motorhead99@comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:2408801c45eeb$cc9d1a70$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello everyone,
>   Here's the history before i get to my problem. I had my
> old compaq 5365 completely rebuilt from the ground up a
> year ago. It's got a MSI mainboard with a 2.4 gig pentium
> 4, maxtor 30 gig hard disk drive, and sound blaster audigy
> sound card(its quite a beast in my oppinion with a
> braodband connection). But running out of $$ at the time i
> decided to keep windows 98 se and the old origional
> quantum bigfoot 10 gig hard drive as the primary hdd until
> i could get a little more money to get xp and rip out the
> bigfoot and use it as a doorstop(believe me it makes a
> better door stop than a hdd). This past spring the old
> bigfoot started to fail, it had sum bad sectors and i was
> having to run a disk clean up quite often. SO i took it
> back to the service that rebuilt it b4, i also got a deal
> from the guy and got xp pro at a pretty good price.
> --->   Now heres the problem. When he installed xp i guess
> he did not install the driver for the usb controller.
> since xp was installed i cant use anything, i cant use my
> parents hp camera, my creative jukebox zen, or even a
> memorex thumbdrive which shud b plug and play on xp. i
> think the driver file i need is USBEHCI.SYS thats wut i
> need so i can install the universal Serial Bus (USB)
> Controller (this is exactly what is shown to have a
> problem on the hardware manager, and sez i need that
> file). Can any body help me??? I dont have the serial Id #
> for xp so i cant simply cal windows or leave them a
> message without the # (it was anything illegal he was an
> authorized dealer, but he since quit and now i cant use
> his help again)
> a reply to this post is fine, or email, or even AIM if its
> convenient for anybody (my sn is MotorheadDB)
>
> Thank you very much,
> DB
> ([-_=])

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