usb ports not working, bios is enabled,but nothing works.
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stingray812
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windows 98 ,upgrade from 95 os,IWILL motherboard(xa100),amdk6/2 chip,64mb ram i have checked the bios and usb is enabled,device manager shows both usb propertys and shows functioning correctly. i am trying to install a webcam,IBM pc webcam,and a microsoft sidewinder joystick, both load drivers ok and when i connect device to use them it says that they are not connected,i know that the devices work because they work on my other computer.Please HELP ME!!
Try installing the latest motherboard drivers from www.ali.com.tw
I think USB support started off as dodgy, starting in later versions of Windows 95, and then improving with each sucessive version of Windows. I think Windows 2000 was pretty good, and probably XP added the support for Hi Speed (USB 2.0) support. I first used USB under Windows 98 with one device, and that worked fine.
Even if the USB ports are reported to be working correctly, I personally would not trust an upgraded O/S to have not corrupted the support for these devices somehow when I do not even trust O/S upgrades as opposed to clean installs in the first place.
Try one device at a time to start off with. If you know that a particular device is USB rev 1.1, know that it works OK under Windows 98 and know that it works on a similar spec machine, then that is probably the best device to experiment with.
Even if the USB ports are reported to be working correctly, I personally would not trust an upgraded O/S to have not corrupted the support for these devices somehow when I do not even trust O/S upgrades as opposed to clean installs in the first place.
Try one device at a time to start off with. If you know that a particular device is USB rev 1.1, know that it works OK under Windows 98 and know that it works on a similar spec machine, then that is probably the best device to experiment with.