usb 1.0 and 2.0 using win 98 se

[Keleah]

Hi all and Happy Thanksgiving,

I read the rules but am unsure where to post this message--hope it's ok here---if not, chew me out and then direct me-----k------

After purchasing an 80 gb usb drive I found it needed an 2.0 card, not the usual 1.0 found in Win 98 se. After installing the card Windows found the new hard drive but keep attaching it to the 1.0 usb.

please, can someone advise this lady [67] what to do about this matter?

[jaclaz]

The problem is HARDWARE (not within Windows 98).

Your new Hard disk has (internally) an USB 2.0 interface

Your (elder) PC has an USB 1.0 interface card

USB 2.0 is COMPATIBLE with USB 1.0, the only fact is that the Hard disk, though capable of working at USB 2.0 SPEED, will slow transfer down to USB 1.0 speed.

USB 2.0 (High Speed USB) Max transfer speed:480Mbits/second

USB 1.0 Max transfer speed:12Mbits/second.

Nothing you can do unless buying a new add-on USB 2.0 card and install it inside your PC.

See here:

http://www.everythingusb.com/usb2/faq.htm

jaclaz

[Keleah]

Hi jaclaz,

and your reply is much appreciated.

I didn't quiet understand why you mentioned I needed a usb 2.0 card installed, so I re-read my letter to find I didn't say I had purchased, and installed, a new Belkin usb 2.0 card which Windows reconized but still attached the drive to the old usb 1.0.

I've uninstalled and re-installed several times with the same effect. by the way, I can't find the new drive anywhere in device manager except under system devices in dm.

would it help if I sent an attachment with the system devices listed?

I realize my machine is 3 1\2 years old, and I need to upgrade different hdware, but I've been afraid to flash anything. I keep putting money into the thing and probably shouldn't do so.

I just purchased an e-machine t2824, but I'm wondering if I went too cheap [really all I had to spend--326 bucks]. It has the usb 2.0 included in hdware, but I'm seriously thinking about returning it to bestbuy. don't think it's upgradable enough and one review says its a memory stealer---any ideas on this and all suggestions are appreciated? Keleah

[jaclaz]

Sorry, I didn't get it.

Let me summarize it:

you have a new belkin USB 2.0 card fitted to your system

(something like this one:

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage...oduct_Id=122771 )

you installed the Windows 98 drivers for it

you connected the external 80 Gb USB drive by means of an USB cable to the new card socket

you cannot see the USB drive from My Computer

You can try the following steps:

1) Check the drive and cable on a friend's computer

2) Check the card in your PC by attaching another USB device to it

3) Check in Device Manager there are no devices with exclamaton or question mark

4) Try disabling (from BIOS) your internal USB

5) Try removing the card and putting it on ANOTHER PCI slot (I know it sounds crazy, but often it works)

6) Try removing from Device Manager all USB related entries, then re-boot, it should auto detect the devices and ask you for drivers

7) Check in your autoexec.bat that you DO NOT have a line like:

LASTDRIVE=D

if you have it, edit it to

LASTDRIVE=Z

That's about all that comes to my mind.

jaclaz

[Drewdatrip]

Keleah

Find your newly installed Belkin card in your device manager.

Pop in the provided driver disk that came witht he belkin card.

Reinstall the drivers that are provided on the Cd or floppy.

The driver disk should be broken down into subdirectories, one probly being Win98.

That should do the trick

|Drew|

[Keleah]

Wow, thanks guys for the info.

Wanted to let each know that I can't get my cd-rom to work---beats all I've ever seen. It is a Pacific Digital CD-RW reader writer which showed up in Device Manager as a PCD

CDRW. After a crash from the ripper virus, a kids virus and a trojan, I used mcafee rescue disk [which immediately ridded the computer of viruses but also seemed to have removed the cd from DM. I removed the drive, replaced it and rebooted. It came up on boot-up screen as a Yamaha, which is the original name of the drive. I have used the drive since then but couldn't get it to reconize media or to burn.

I contacted Yamaha and they said they no longer support the drive, but it was sold to Pacific Digital and they probably used other drivers. I have the burner disks that came with the burner but can't get it to read them. I checked the bios and it says auto or I could change it to other names such as Atapia, but I'm not sure. I've fidded with autoexec. bat [7 years experiance] and config.sys, but can't get it to work.

Maybe you guys have an idea here.

When I purchased the Belkin usb 2.0 card from Wal-marts it came with no cd nor floppy.

I just installed it in a slot and Win 98se reconized it right away.

I'll remove, and re-install it into another slot after removing the drivers to see if that works. My thanks to each of you. Keleah