GranSalseron
December 6th 03, 09:34 PM
There is a C:\WINDOWS\INF folder but you have to know the
name of the file to delete. It would be a *.inf file that
needs to be deleted but you have to know which one,
otherwise you could mess up your computer.
>-----Original Message-----
>I've seen a couple other posts with similar problems. I
>tried using the front USB ports on my MSI Kt3-Ultra2
>Motherboard, and I got a "high-speed deveice using a low
>speed USB port" message. The MSI website suggested
>deleting the USB in Device manager and letting Windows XP
>re-detect it. Not only did this not work, but now it
>won't install the VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller.
>Now it will only install the VIA USB enhanced host
>controller (Not 2.0). If I try to force the install of
>the USB 2.0 Enhanced host controller, The driver update
>FAILS saying that something (some entry?) in the INF file
>is missing, and suggests it's a Windows 95 driver I'm
>trying to load. I'm loading from the current
>C:/Windows/INF folder.
>
>If it's true that we no longer need the VIA drivers since
>Service pack 1 is installed, then how do we prevent
>Windows from installing the older drivers? In Windows
>95/98, you could force windows to update the driver files
>by deleting some /BIN files from the INF directory. Is
>this still possible? Is there a registry hack I need to
>know?
>
>Please help.
>
>Pete
>.
>
name of the file to delete. It would be a *.inf file that
needs to be deleted but you have to know which one,
otherwise you could mess up your computer.
>-----Original Message-----
>I've seen a couple other posts with similar problems. I
>tried using the front USB ports on my MSI Kt3-Ultra2
>Motherboard, and I got a "high-speed deveice using a low
>speed USB port" message. The MSI website suggested
>deleting the USB in Device manager and letting Windows XP
>re-detect it. Not only did this not work, but now it
>won't install the VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller.
>Now it will only install the VIA USB enhanced host
>controller (Not 2.0). If I try to force the install of
>the USB 2.0 Enhanced host controller, The driver update
>FAILS saying that something (some entry?) in the INF file
>is missing, and suggests it's a Windows 95 driver I'm
>trying to load. I'm loading from the current
>C:/Windows/INF folder.
>
>If it's true that we no longer need the VIA drivers since
>Service pack 1 is installed, then how do we prevent
>Windows from installing the older drivers? In Windows
>95/98, you could force windows to update the driver files
>by deleting some /BIN files from the INF directory. Is
>this still possible? Is there a registry hack I need to
>know?
>
>Please help.
>
>Pete
>.
>