USB Drivers

[eugenepfk]

Hi Guys need some help!

I have a K6II 400MHz, running windows XP pro with 192Mb of RAM and dont have any USB ports. Bought a USB to pci with 2 ports. I had installed it and WinXP detected the new devices with no problem. Then I connect my USB port to the pocket pc. I found out there were problems.

The pc goes into high load. From this I decided to remove all startup application to reduce memory usage at initial operation of WinXp. This did not help a bit. I tried removing antiviruses and many other applications. At last the pocket pc was able to detect by WinXP as a USB user. But it did not stay connected but instead gave me an error msg that the windows driver for the OPTI82C861 pci usb driver was not functioning properly and was forced to close its connection.

Went to the Device manager and found out that there was a yellow question mark at the begining of OPTI82C861....... I check the drivers and tried to install a new patch of drivers but it some how does not help at all.

Is there anyone out there that know how to solve this problem? I would appreciate it alot.. It is driving me nuts. Please advice !

Regards
eugenepfk

 

[KenWright]

Wrong Group - Try Desktop Hardware or Desktop Software areas. Far more likely to get a response.

Regards
Ken..............

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[sdraper]

Service Pack 1 resolved some USB issues. Especially USB 2.0

Sam

 

[srosek2]

You're not running enough RAM, and a 400 speed machine may not be powerful enough to handle the USB requirements, especially since you don't have mainboard connectivity for USB. In short, the machine may be too old and too underpowered. Hate to say this, but it's time to modernize.

 

[sdraper]

srosek2 is probably right but I know of several PC's with similar specs running XP pro and using USB... I would dewfinitely try Service PAck 1 if you don't have it already. I installed a USB 2.0 card in a pc that didn't have SP1 installed. I could get the operating system to play nice with the card until I did SP1.

Sam