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

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:04:30 -0500

It was illegal unless he provided you with the XP CD and the
product key. Your option is to buy an XP CD. If you have
been able to get Windows Update to work, the installation
may have used a legal product key and you can try to
download SP1, which should install USB drivers. You can
also order the Windows Security Update CD, which has SP1 and
this will save you a lot of download time on-line.
MS pays all cost on the CD
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp 

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"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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