USB Problem

[Stu2]

I recently reinstalled my harddrive. I started the reinstall with Windows 3.1, and use the Windows 98 (1st Edition) Upgrade. The problem is my two USB devices both seem to be recognized in device manager, without problem (no question marks or yellow flags). But in Windows Explorer, I don't see the drives (one is an Acer USB drive, and the second is a SanDisk Memory Card reader).

Windows Explorer only seems to go up to Drive E, because my internal ATAPI zip drive does not show up either, but that may be a different problem.

Please help with your suggestions. I'm at my wits end on this.

Also, I notice that when I turn on or off my Acer CDRW device, the hour glass comes on, obviously recognizing the change in the USB status.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Stu2]

One last thing. The USB Devices are enabled in CMOS.

Thanks.

 

[Stu2]

Two more things.

I booted up in Safe Mode and noticed that I had multiple device managers for some of my devices that were not working. I deleted all of the device managers for these usb devices, but also noticed 5 occurrences of the device manager for "IRQ for PCI Steering". I deleted all 5 of these too.

I rebooted and noticed that "IRQ for PCI Steering" was recreated again multiple times upon the opening of Windows.

In order to get my CDROM to work I have to load the device in both Config.sys and Autoexec.bat.

Thanks.

 

[shasow]

with some usb devices, you have to load the software before you attatch the device. also look under control panel-tweak ui and see if extra drive letters ahve a check by them.

 

[Stu2]

Where in Tweak UI would I find that? I looked at all the tabs.

Thanks

 

[Stu2]

For those of you reading this, the solution to my problem was to reinstall the hard drive.

I had originally installed Windows 3.1, and then used an upgrade to Windows 98, FE. This was the problem, because evidently some remnants of Windows 3.1 were still present (i.e., lack of USB support, and lack of CD ROM support without using autoexec.bat to load the device manager.

End of problem. Everything works fine now.