Hi ! Please help anyone.
I've just upgraded an old Patriot machine to Windows 2000 and now the USB ports have stopped working.
Does anyone know that this is a known issue.
Should I attempt to down grade the machine back to WIN98.
Sorry I have little information. The board has the numbers PA-2011 on it if it means anything to anyone.
Thanks
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I have now found a number on the back of the machine Partriot M11-300
If it helps?????
lol ul have a problem down grading!
Have you gone into device manager and had alook to see if the usb ports are installed correctly?
<<Start>>
<<Settings>>
<<System>>
You will find it in their!
On my machine I get
Universal Serial Bus controllers
generic hub
USB mass storage device
USB printing support
USB root HUB
on the problem machine I get
Universal Serial Bus Controllers
Unsupported Universal Serial Bus Controller device ...... or something like that !!!!
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Does this help??????
Actually.....if its a VIA chipset....they released a USB Patch that fixes the problem with USB 1.0 and 1.1.
you can find it here.....
USB Patch for VIA Chipsets
I'm not a hardware type person so I havn't a clue how to tell what chips are in the machine
so I loaded the patch anyways !!
in this case a big mistake !!
it all looked good
it seemed to install ok it even detected new hardware USB hub etc
it then asked for a re-boot thats when the trouble began.
the machine now hangs either while still in teh BIOS boot checking or in early
stages of WINDOWS 2000 startup.
check ur bios settings, look for anything about usb
what motherboard do you have?? look for a model number on the board itself. But I havent got a clue as to why it hangs. Cause my old motherboard did the same thing, unsopported blah blah and i did the USB filter patch and it all worked smooth after that.
it had a VIA chipset.
and if u have anything attached to the USB ports, unplug them to see what it does
re-booted the machine a couple of times.
the machine done a disc check on the C drive and now it seems ok
have looked in the device manager and the USB drivers have fired up.
I am totally in debt to you.
Thankyou very much for your time.
I would have been stuck with a dead machine otherwise.
Have a drink on me!! :)
all u did was restart it?? or did u unplug anything? just curious
either way.......nice to know u got it working