Dunno WHERE this belongs

Windoze; hardware; who knows.

USB's are fubar as in a previous post. That started with a new D-Link
wireless N adapter. Been reading posts on this issue still no resolve to
it. When plugging in some jump drives windows xp SP3 recognizes them
correctly and reports them as such in the drive tree. Others will be
reported in hardware manager under disk drives as working properly, but
won't show in the list of drives when exploring My computer. Did this
with a DVD burner I added last winter too. After unplugging one of the
other CDROMS then it showed in the drive tree.

Am wondering if a fresh install on a new hard drive would alleviate
both issues, or if I'd need a new motherboard plus hard drive. I know
that would increase success chance greatly, but socket A boards ain't
exactly plentiful, and one I'm watching on Ebay is already over 65
bucks. Too much old hardware, and too stubborn to want to buy brand new.

Yah; I'm old. Can't throw anything away. LOL!!
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"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:57:17 -0500, pheasant
wrote:

Windoze; hardware; who knows.

USB's are fubar as in a previous post. That started with a new D-Link
wireless N adapter. Been reading posts on this issue still no resolve to
it. When plugging in some jump drives windows xp SP3 recognizes them
correctly and reports them as such in the drive tree. Others will be
reported in hardware manager under disk drives as working properly, but
won't show in the list of drives when exploring My computer. Did this
with a DVD burner I added last winter too. After unplugging one of the
other CDROMS then it showed in the drive tree.

Am wondering if a fresh install on a new hard drive would alleviate
both issues, or if I'd need a new motherboard plus hard drive. I know
that would increase success chance greatly, but socket A boards ain't
exactly plentiful, and one I'm watching on Ebay is already over 65
bucks. Too much old hardware, and too stubborn to want to buy brand new.

\
I'd be checking the 5v power line, either with software or a meter.
Sounds like it is running low on usb power.

Chris Hill wrote:
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:57:17 -0500, pheasant
wrote:

Windoze; hardware; who knows.

USB's are fubar as in a previous post. That started with a new D-Link
wireless N adapter. Been reading posts on this issue still no resolve to
it. When plugging in some jump drives windows xp SP3 recognizes them
correctly and reports them as such in the drive tree. Others will be
reported in hardware manager under disk drives as working properly, but
won't show in the list of drives when exploring My computer. Did this
with a DVD burner I added last winter too. After unplugging one of the
other CDROMS then it showed in the drive tree.

Am wondering if a fresh install on a new hard drive would alleviate
both issues, or if I'd need a new motherboard plus hard drive. I know
that would increase success chance greatly, but socket A boards ain't
exactly plentiful, and one I'm watching on Ebay is already over 65
bucks. Too much old hardware, and too stubborn to want to buy brand new.

\
I'd be checking the 5v power line, either with software or a meter.
Sounds like it is running low on usb power.

Thanks for the idea Chris. Running 4.96 to 5.04 consistently according
to Soltek's motherboard monitor. Have decided after daughter's wedding
will try and find a newer mobo/cpu and power supply with th new 24 pin
plug with a few PCI slots.

Saw an ASUS A7 deluxe for for over 140 bucks on eBay yesterday. So time
to scrap the Athlon Barton.


--

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein