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[Fornhamfred]

I have just reinstalled ME and when inserting my usb stick in my hub the machine freezes and task manager shows the above message. I have tried swapping around the hub but no go. Device manager shows no problems with drivers. The hub is then dead until I re-boot. I have tried plugging in other devices and they all work. The stick works fine in the same hub when running Linux. Any suggestions would be very welcome.

 

[kestrel1]

Update all your USB drivers. If these are on-board ports the drivers will be part of the chip set drivers I expect, so update your chip set drivers also. Is this a powered hub?

 

[Fornhamfred]

Thanks Kestrel

Since posting this query I decided because ME was giving so many problems that I would install XP. This has resolved the problem.

 

[kestrel1]

ME always was a buggy OS. XP is better although not perfect. Make sure that you keep it upto date with the latest patches. SP2 made the OS alot better.