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I think I have the German version of NUSB33, and I sucessfully used it on other computers. (Anyway, I think, only some dialogues would be in English, if one installed the English version on any language Windows.) I think I once managed to run the Opti add-in USB card along mainboard USB on some mainboard. However if a hardware ressource such as IRQ conflict was the problem, then the controller would have a yellow exclamation mark, but not the hub. And of course when I plugged the Opti card into the offending K8N, I booted up once with disabled mainboard USB, too, but that did not help. There is one thing I have not tried yet, that is installing Windows without ACPI. I forgot the details, but I think one can even remove ACPI from an already installed Windows 98. Somewhat dangerous operation, but I may try it soon.

Thank thee, there are v4.27 drivers, while I used v4.20 ones before. Just ATI graphics and Aureal sound card. I already re-installed Windows from scratch since I had had this problem for the first time. Yes. Thanks again, I did not have the manual. The manual means, that on the CD-ROM (which I do not have) were USB2.0 drivers. But the nforce drivers above do not include USB, and at asus.com/K8N there neither are USB drivers for Win4. When I activate legacy support for USB in the BIOS, stick in the 8GB flash disk and boot into DOS (F8 - "boot into command prompt"), the disk is D:, and I can copy files from/to it. (Now fast, since I found that "hispeed" is faster than "fullspeed"). When I now type "win" <enter>, windows starts loading. But the legacy USB code gets in the way, and Windows quits by saying "explorer.exe found error, please reinstall windows". (I use a german Windows, so I must re-translate messages.) When I let the computer boot into Windows right away, then no crashes but just non-functional hubs. It does not cause crashes but it does not work. But it works on other mainboards. Somehow the K8N mainboard lets any USB hub in Windows 98 SE fail. I also deactivated legacy support in the BIOS, to no avail. But Windows XP has no problems --USB-wise or other-- with this mainboard. The controller is the server, and the first hub is the slave, a logical device which provides a bus. A USB bus can run six devices in parallel, hence it has so many jacks. Plugging in another hub, another six devices can become connected to the same controller. As devices differ in many ways from another, each device needs a driver. Windows 98 SE on the K8N installs any controllers fine, they have no yellow exclamations or red crosses. But any hub gets the error. I apprechiate, how thou are helping people.

It is an Asus K8N rev1.01 mainboard. The nForce3 chipset basically is just one nVidia chip which handles AGP, PCI, USB1/2, ATA and various other things and which is connected to the CPU via HyperTransport. Setting CPU speed to 800MHz, ACPI 2.0 on or off and APIC on or off helps neither. I tried all BIOSes from the latest BIOS (v1011 beta005) down to 1006. I can boot into MS-DOS and acess an USB flash disk (with low speed, even tho I load smartdrv, and only 8.3 file names), but when i run win afterwards, Windows gives an explorer.exe error and shuts down.

Hello, I use NUSB3.3 on a Pentium3 USB1 (440BX) machine and thank you, the hackers, for that, because it works better than the vanilla drivers from Windows 98 SE. You might be interested in solving another problem of mine, that is the following: On an nForce3 machine (Athlon64) I always get a yellow exclamation mark for the root hub of any USB host controller I install, "ntkern.vxd could not load the device driver -- code 2", no matter if the vanilla driver or NUSB3.3. I tried several posted possible remedies, but none works for me. I tried a PCI Opti USB1 card, but that gives the same error message. Any suggestions?