Vista & USB drives

mrochester

mrochester

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Hi,

I have a Kingston DataTraveller 1GB memory stick. In my own PC, running Vista Home Premium, the device installs and operates just fine. In 3 other PCs, 2 running Home Premium and another Ultimate, the device refuses to install, and Vista asks for the CD that came with the device to be inserted (the drive did not come with a CD). My question is, why does the drive work perfectly on my copy of Vista, yet refuses to work on 3 others? This whole thing is driving me round the bend.

TIA,

Michael.
 
I have a 1gb mp3 player. When I insert it it pops up as generic mp3 player or something like that. Asks for drivers, and so wont work.

It is really LANGUAGE! that vista wont assign generic usb drivers properly. Its the reason it keep asking me for drivers for my wireless kb+m (and the receiver it seems. There are 3 unrecognised devices, even though my keyboard is listed under keyboards and my mouse is listed under mice)
 
Try changing to USB1.1 in BIOS on the affected machines. Apparently there's some kind of bug with Vista and USB2.
 
Tute said:
Try changing to USB1.1 in BIOS on the affected machines. Apparently there's some kind of bug with Vista and USB2.
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The bug only occurs when you have over 2gb of RAM (which I did have). The 3 other machines where the Kingston USB drive does not work don't have over 2GB of RAM, so should work fine at USB2 speed.
 
Lister2020 said:
I have over 2 gig of ram, and also, I don't know if there is an option in my bios to disable usb2.
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This problem has now apparently been fixed in the latest update for Vista. Seems it was a bug in Vista rather than a driver issue.
 
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