Usb!

[Crysalis]

Hey guys. Just built a new system... AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with a gig of 3200, gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 (mobo).

I cannot get any of my flash drives working. They are recognized... they install fine, they show up in device manager, disk management and i can access them if i type in their drive letter, but they do not show up in windows XP. I can't format them, I can't do anything. I see that they are connected. XP shows that they are connected, but not in "my computer". I have tried starting and stopping all USB related services... i have checked BIOS 3 times. I did microsofts registry edit and no fix there either.

WHATS GOING ON!? This is not an uncommon problem i guess because i got tons of pages of help (Which didn't help)... happens to alot of people...they end up fixing it, but none of their methods helped.


Any ideas?

 

[Ste]

Have you updated all the service packs and USB Drivers?

Did the flash drives come with any Drivers or Software?

 

[Crysalis]

Yes, yes and no. Worked fine until i upgraded mobo and processor.

 

[AnthraX]

Have you installed all the latest drivers for the motherboard?
If nothing else, why not just go buy a USB PCI card and install that?

 

[Ste]

Yes, yes and no. Worked fine until i upgraded mobo and processor.

Did you install all the drivers on the Motherboard Disc that was included?

If you did, I would run a repair of windows.

 

[Crysalis]

I ran a repair of windows right after i installed new mobo and processor, then i installed the drivers. Should I have done it the opposite? I was getting blue screens referring to IRQ address and it wasn't "fixable", so i upgraded. Those BSOD's were gone, but the boot sector for windows went bad, so I did a repair since I couldn't boot to windows to install drivers. Once Windows was fixed, I installed the drivers from the mobo's CD. I have tried to uninstall them, but I dont see anywhere to do it. When I insert the CD, it shows everything is installed, but no where to remove and when i push OK, it says Drivers Installed, Please Reboot. Rebooting doesn't do anything.

 

[Crysalis]

Have you installed all the latest drivers for the motherboard?
If nothing else, why not just go buy a USB PCI card and install that?

Problem with that is is that I DO have a PCI card installed as well... I get the same thing. The drives show up in disk management and Device manager, but can't access them for the life of me.

EDIT: I took out the PCI card just to eliminate that in case the drivers were interferring with each other. Didn't help

 

[Hefemeister]

Did you do a fresh install of windows after swapping motherboard and chip or just put in your old drive, and run a repair?

 

[Crysalis]

just ran a repair

 

[void]

Odd question, but do all the usb ports have power? I've come across computers which freeze when you plug any usb devices in because there isn't enough power.