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Hi.
I am having a bit of a trick with my mb and hw installations in winxp pro.
My windows installation has been around for some time now, and I kind of
like it.
-so a reinstall of winxp at present is no issue, really.
Therefore I would like to try and find the problem and solve it the hard
way first.
Whenever I add new hw that needs to install drivers of a kind, my
machine simply can not find them automatically.
I have to use the manual way, and i.e. point to my c:\windows\inf
catalog -or where the drivers are located elsewhere for that matter.
It's like it somehowe have noe idea that the inf folder is in fact a
good place to look first. This causes sometimes a bit of a mess in
installations, especially when there are several driver versions etc. to
choose from.
Furthermore; my mb has trouble with a shortage of usb ports. Usb 1-2 and
3-4 are long taken, and the other day I strode forward to put in use the
long forgotten usb 5-6 plug on the mb. Since it's been a while since the
mb was purchased and installed, I looked in vain for the original extra
usb port cable set. I took a "regular" one forward, and controlled the
mb book. To my surprise I found that the usb plug for 5-6 doesn't use
the same wire placement as the regular one I found. I checked Hardware
book, and found that A7N8X used the same order from left to right on
both sides for this usb plug.
usb+5v(red)/usb-(white)/usb+(green)/GND(black). On the one I found, the
colors whent in loop, like; red/wh/gr/bl/bl/ - bl/bl/gr/wh/red.
So I made it so it should fit the specs, but to no awail. My machine
does not react to plugging and unplugging of these ports, so something
is amiss.
Maybe I sqrewed around with the wires too much, and blew something up,
but nothing smells foul or otherwise broken. Later I found a new usb
wire with a plug that matches the color(blue) on the plug on the mb and
has a similar wire placement as the book says. But still no reaction.
Any good ideas? -besides reinstall, new mb etc. etc. ;-)
Best regards
Tony K.
Hi.
I am having a bit of a trick with my mb and hw installations in winxp pro.
My windows installation has been around for some time now, and I kind of
like it.
-so a reinstall of winxp at present is no issue, really.
Therefore I would like to try and find the problem and solve it the hard
way first.
Whenever I add new hw that needs to install drivers of a kind, my
machine simply can not find them automatically.
I have to use the manual way, and i.e. point to my c:\windows\inf
catalog -or where the drivers are located elsewhere for that matter.
It's like it somehowe have noe idea that the inf folder is in fact a
good place to look first. This causes sometimes a bit of a mess in
installations, especially when there are several driver versions etc. to
choose from.
Furthermore; my mb has trouble with a shortage of usb ports. Usb 1-2 and
3-4 are long taken, and the other day I strode forward to put in use the
long forgotten usb 5-6 plug on the mb. Since it's been a while since the
mb was purchased and installed, I looked in vain for the original extra
usb port cable set. I took a "regular" one forward, and controlled the
mb book. To my surprise I found that the usb plug for 5-6 doesn't use
the same wire placement as the regular one I found. I checked Hardware
book, and found that A7N8X used the same order from left to right on
both sides for this usb plug.
usb+5v(red)/usb-(white)/usb+(green)/GND(black). On the one I found, the
colors whent in loop, like; red/wh/gr/bl/bl/ - bl/bl/gr/wh/red.
So I made it so it should fit the specs, but to no awail. My machine
does not react to plugging and unplugging of these ports, so something
is amiss.
Maybe I sqrewed around with the wires too much, and blew something up,
but nothing smells foul or otherwise broken. Later I found a new usb
wire with a plug that matches the color(blue) on the plug on the mb and
has a similar wire placement as the book says. But still no reaction.
Any good ideas? -besides reinstall, new mb etc. etc. ;-)
Best regards
Tony K.
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