USB Problems in Win2K

[Topha]

mouse, keyboard and printer work (all usb), didnt have problems with the camera yet (usb), only problem is that scanner...

[Nuno]

That´s the worst part of it. For some people, Abit KT133x boards work just fine with usb devices. Others are just left in the dust, because no matter what they do, they can´t get some usb devices running.

Defective boards? Some cursed hardware combinations? Don´t really know. This time we can´t really blame VIA, because this appears to happen only in Abit boards.

I had quite a few reasons to stay away from Abit boards. This proved me right. I had better thoughts about Asus, but since my A7V died on me, I don´t really know anymore.

Do you wan´t to know a brand that never gave me a single problem: Gigabyte. Go wonder.

[cbman]

I hadn't paid too much attention to gigabyte until I started "volunteering" at the local computer store (They can't afford to hire me yet so I work for credit when I come in... plus I can come and go when I please )

They mainly deal with Gigabyte, with the occasional Asus, MSI, Abit... etc.

I now have alot of respect for them.

They have shipped about 39 systems as of now and 30 or so of them have had Gigabyte boards... so far not one has had a problem. (We did have an ASUS board with faulty memory slots that had to be exchanged, I think it was a fluke as I haven't heard of that occuring that often.)

[SteveC]

In all the USB problems I've ever seen (and it's quite a few!) - 99% of them are fixed by adding a (NON VIA CHIPSET) USB PCI Card, or using a POWERED USB hub.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Jammrock]

I just install Win2k with SP1 last night. All my USB whoa's are now gone. It looks like MS really screwed up USB in SP2. No SP2 for my Abit system.

Jammrock

[The PIT]

A lot of the blame has placed a creative and various versions of the live. Out of interest have any of you lot with the probs got a live card.
I haven't tried USB since installing sp2 so I wondering if it's still working.

[Topha]

fact of the matter is that usb is actually working a little better with sp2 than it did with sp1, it almost makes it half through the scanning progress now

[Topha]

wow, abit sent me a reply a few days after I sent my email, and i finally did what they told me (bios update to kt7a-3c) and now it works perfect, no problems with the scanner so far, and the digital camera work withough problems (there were a few before), so if anyone else has usb problems with an abit kt7, do that bios update (they say you might lose your raid configuration, and thus you data, but i didnt )