windows 98 USB problem

[Chance1234]

bought a flash stick MP3 player, its unbranded and the english in the manual contains such gems as runs on concerete and you can fly with your player.

anyway after much confusion and tyring to get it to work on both my laptop (running 98) and my desktop (also running 98)

i finally manage to get it working on my laptop by realising that i needed to run the disk first without the player connected then reboot and connect the player.

but i cant for the life of me get it working on my desktop it keeps coming up unknown device and when i try to install from the list of devices it asks for a disk that doesnt exist.



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[diogenes10]

Using 98 se. When I experimented with a usb drive, I had to have a driver for it to make it work.

To try to get more info about your player and hunt up a driver,
1) If it has an fcc id number on it, you could try googling on that and see what comes up
or
2) Aaida32 gives a lot of hardware info, dont know if it can look into usb devices and get info like it does on other components, but it might be worth a try.

A usb help site Ive seen recommended here several times is USBMAN but their search is currently disabled by hackers, so I'm not sure if that's going to help much right now.

 

[Chance1234]

have got the drivers, the problem is that even though i have installed the drivers on my desktop, it still is coming up as unreconised.

laptop not a problem.



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[TheLumberingAdmin]

Possibly try (with the device plugged in and showing as "unknown" in Device Manager), deleting it from the Device Manager, unplugging it, restarting, then installing the drivers, and then plugging it back in. (going with the "install drivers first" bit you did on your laptop).

Only other idea are the USB drivers. Is your motherboard older, with an Intel chipset? I know some of the early Pentium II and some really early Pentium II boards from Intel had some USB problems w/ Win98. I think its the 82801AA and 82801BA Host Controller drivers (look in your Device Manager under USB controllers). I had a USB HP Printer that would always stop halfway through a print and lose communication with the computer (a PII 450 with a DFI Motherboard, Intel Chipset). Changed to 82801AB, and everything seemed to work out ok. As far as HP and their USB printers are concerned, the 82801AA and BA chipsets "have intermittent communication or connection problems". If you search for "Solving Problems with the USB Chipset" HP's help page should be the first link, they list a few other chipsets that have problems as well.

Diogenes is right about USBMAN, though. And their search, as he said, is down. It might be worth a look at their site anyway, however. Maybe it will help you come up with another idea:

http://www.usbman.com

Ohter thought... you may have done this already... if you have any other USB devices, try uplugging them before plugging in the USB drive.

Hope something in there helped!