Author Topic: PCI USB2.0 Card Probs (Read 761 times)

dachs · « **on:** November 26, 2005, 04:06 »

I have loaded a PCI USB2.0 Card into a computer using Win98SE. The Wizard says the drivers are loaded and they can be seen in Device Manager. When the computer is re-booted it finds the 'New Hardware' again and wants to install drivers. How can I stop this from happening at each boot? The card seems to work fine.

Dachs

Sandra · « **Reply #1 on:** November 26, 2005, 10:06 »

Hi Dachs and

Have you tried the card in different PCI slots ?

Sometimes they can work fine in one and not in others, especially troublesome are ones installed to the one next to the AGP slot on some motherboards.

Simon · « **Reply #2 on:** November 26, 2005, 12:27 »

I had exactly the same thing happen on a Win98 machine the other week - I re-installed the drivers from the CD, and it was fine after that.

chorleydave · « **Reply #3 on:** November 26, 2005, 15:07 »

I know this might sound obvious, but are you (or is Windows) installing the correct driver?

I too had that on a Windows 98SE machine. It was working, but everytime I rebooted it found new hardware. Eventually, by taking it out of the slot and having a look at it, I discovered that Windows was installing a generic driver, when the hardware actually had an Acer Labs chip. Once I had chosen the correct driver from the supplied CD it worked fine.