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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: dachs on November 26, 2005, 04:06

Title: PCI USB2.0 Card Probs
Post by: 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

Title: PCI USB2.0 Card Probs
Post by: Sandra on November 26, 2005, 10:06

Hi Dachs and :welcome:

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.

Title: PCI USB2.0 Card Probs
Post by: Simon 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.

Title: PCI USB2.0 Card Probs
Post by: chorleydave 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.