Is there a patch to use USB ports?

[jwharks]

Hello all,

I wonder if any of you know of a way to enable the USB ports in NT4 Workstation.

I know the official line from MS is that they are not supported but would not be surprised if there was a 3rd party patch to fix this.

Hope to hear of a solution

John

 

[Kjonnnn]

There ARE adaptors... a few people are here use them.

 

[efzrout]

Where might one find an adaptor to the the USB ports on an NT 4 workstation?

 

[jonathanku]

I would also be interested to know if there is a software patch to be able to use the USB port.

p.s. What kind of adapter...? Like a USB-to-ParallelPort adapter?

 

[efzrout]

There is software and hardware that provide limited USB support for Windows NT 4.0. Check out these URLs.

http://www.bsquare.com/products/devtools/usbwin40/

http://www.usbman.com/Win NT USB Guide.htm

Ed

 

[MacMan]

NT 4.0 does not support USB, having used a couple of patches in an attempt to force it to do so only resulted in problems with DMA and other port assignments. Do yourself a favor find an alternative or upgrade the unit to Win2k which does support it.

 

[Guest_imported]

Try this link:

http://www.ionetworks.com/support/epdrivers.html

It works good with my NT workstation

Good Luck,

Sergueï MOURYLEV

 

[macit]

If an Iomega Zip drive is your goal then yes to the USB ports. Iomega has a driver at there site that can be downloaded and installed for USB support BUT if you do this no other USB device can be used with the above driver. I was hoping Palm would have a driver for NT 4.0 but they don't at this time. Hope this helps.