After hours of troubleshooting and trial and error, I completely uninstalled all instances of Universal Serial Bus controllers from Device manager and installed new drivers from a Windows XP disk.
Fixed the problem right up. If drivers from the Windows XP disk don't work, I might have got them...
Device is not plugged in at the start of the driver installation per the request of the setup program. Says to start install first, then plug in when prompted.
I'll dig around the BIOS tonight, hopefully I can find a solution.
I reformatted originally because we were not able to get into windows at all, it just continually rebooted. Going back to that, I think now that it was probably due to the Network adapter being plugged in and if I would have just unplugged everything I would have found out the network adapter...
I don't think it's the device though, because it works just fine on my computer. I've downloaded the newest drivers from Linksys as well as tried the old drivers from the CD and both options crash the computer as soon as the drivers are fully installed and the device is plugged in.
He had no...
I had this problem with a friend of mine using a Linux boot CD to change my Windows XP password ....
I added a BIOS boot up password and now he can't get close to me.
A friend of mine has a Linksys 802.11g USB Adapter that he's been using to connect to his wireless router. Anytime he turned on his system, it would get to windows and reboot right away. Among other problems he was having, I did a clean deletion of his partitions, formatted and installed WinXP...
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