re: drivers for usb card
Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(741 messages posted)
Another possible solution is to open the Device Manager -
START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM > DEVICE MANAGER
In Device Manager -
1. Click on the "+" sign next to 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers'.
2. Click on an entry under that heading (to highlight it) that shows as faulty, then
delete the entry by clicking "Remove".
i.e. Remove any entry with a yellow exclamation mark (which indicates a fault) or
a yellow question mark (which indicates an unrecognised device) against it.
Then reboot. Windows will automatically re-install the correct drivers in the course
of the reboot. If you are asked to point the install wizard to the location of the
proper driver file, it is probably in one of these folders -
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS
Installation programs often dump the drivers in one or other of those four locations
by default.
Ed
On Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 9:09 pm, Joe Hepperle wrote:
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>Jane:
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>What might have happened is this:
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>Some USB driver install files do not actually INSTALL the drivers, but rather they
>just extract the driver files to a folder on your hard drive. It is quite possible
>that your driver files are in a folder on your hard drive and when it asked for
a
>CD, or the location of the driver files, you were supposed to point it to those
files.
>
>Try this: Go to your driver install file, and click (or double-click) on it again,
>then pay attention. The very next screen that comes up should show the 'default'
>location where it will extract the files to, unless you manually type in a different
>location. If that is what you see, then close that out, and go to where it asks
you
>for the location of the driver files, and point it to the folder you saw.
>
>As an example, my Lexar USB driver install does not actually install the driver
files
>but rather it just extracts them to folder c:\jdusb2
>
>Then when I plug in my flash drive it pops up the window asking for where the driver
>files are at.
>
>This is why I asked what make and model you had...
>
>Joe Hepperle
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