usb drivers?

ms4383 · 8 Jan 2008 at 18:05

sorry i dont understand. USB key? USB bootable?

had a check inside, dont think its anything ive broken. it all makes no sense!!!

everything works fine, USB included with a crappy IDE 80gb hard drive. Buy a new 160GB SATA and install windows, suddenly the USB controller disappears from device manager.

please guys, im losing the will to live here. lol

split · 8 Jan 2008 at 18:34

sorry i dont understand. USB key? USB bootable?

What that basically means is it will boot from a USB key made bootable. (no drivers etc) see http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm
This is very handy for flashing a BIOS.
I'm not suggesting you do that, just pointing out that USB should not be a problem on this board.

Can you find any BIOS setting for USB?

ms4383 · 8 Jan 2008 at 18:40

Nothing in Bios about USB whatsoever. But i dont think its the board anyway. Its worked fine before, just with a different hard drive.

Same system apart from that, same windows CD.
Only change is an IDE HD to a SATA HD.

Ive formatted and reinstalled windows twice now, still no solution. Why would USB be missing from the device manager?

The bios does have an option of booting from USB if that helfs.

One more thing. When i plug a wireless routed into the USB port, it does get power to the router. So the USB ports are working on some level. They're just not recognised at all from windows.

Its nothing to do with installing a third party SCIS or Raid driver is it? prompts at the very start of windows installation, and the mobo manual sayts it has a "intel matrix storage manager' that provudes functionality for the on chip SATA controller once the Raid functions enabled in Bios. I have no idea what this means. ?????

split · 8 Jan 2008 at 19:08

ms4383 said:
Nothing in Bios about USB whatsoever. But i dont think its the board anyway. Its worked fine before, just with a different hard drive.

Page 2-12 of manual..
USB Device Setting
Click <Enter> key to enter its submenu

The bios does have an option of booting from USB if that helfs.
.

If you had a USB key plugged in, it would give you the option to boot to it, tho it may call it an IDE device.

Its nothing to do with installing a third party SCIS or Raid driver is it? prompts at the very start of windows installation, and the mobo manual sayts it has a "intel matrix storage manager' that provudes functionality for the on chip SATA controller once the Raid functions enabled in Bios. I have no idea what this means. ?????

Shouldn't be as the SATA drivers are on the windows CD unless you use raid.

Have you tried it with the original hard drive that worked with USB?

ms4383 · 8 Jan 2008 at 19:53

oh dear

im officially an idiot. found the usb bit in bios. so sorry to waste ure time mate.

shall i set it to high speed and storage enabled?

split · 9 Jan 2008 at 01:17

ms4383 said:
im officially an idiot. found the usb bit in bios. so sorry to waste ure time mate.

shall i set it to high speed and storage enabled?

Yep both I would think.
Strange it's managed to turn itself off though, so don't feel stupid.
Be interesed to see what happens.