What is the reason for no driver ... ?

Dolby

Dolby

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Hi,

What could the reason be for no drivers being found when a USB device is installed ... ? I thought it was automatic?
 
is is a usb mem stick? if not a stick then not all the time will windows pick it up and install the drivers automatically. and if it is a stick then i dunno, should have picked it up ...
 
If the device was made after Windows was made... Newer technology than it knows...
 
Dolby said:
Hi,

What could the reason be for no drivers being found when a USB device is installed ... ? I thought it was automatic?
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It only works if the USB device identifies itself properly in a USB class that Windows can understand

I had an old MP3 flash player that needed a special driver as it used the USB interface but did not work as a standard mass storage device but instead used it's own funny protocol to write the songs to the player.
 
The device is a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle, which my 'old' Windows XP picks up straight away and installed drivers for. My new box (Windows XP Prog SP2) will not find it. It tells me 'New hardware found' and doesn't find the drivers.

However, I've plugged in IR dongles, memor ycards, web cams, card readers and everything else that has USB in the same port with no trouble. Windows finds and installs verything - it's just this Bluetooth dongle!
 
Dolby said:
The device is a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle, which my 'old' Windows XP picks up straight away and installed drivers for. My new box (Windows XP Prog SP2) will not find it. It tells me 'New hardware found' and doesn't find the drivers.

However, I've plugged in IR dongles, memor ycards, web cams, card readers and everything else that has USB in the same port with no trouble. Windows finds and installs verything - it's just this Bluetooth dongle!
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THe Bluetooth stack was majorily upgraded in SP2 as most bluetooth devices pre SP2 had to do some major hackery to XP itself to work.

See this note from Windows concerning this

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=840635
 
Ah - makes everything clearer! Thanks tibby.dude

I should actually have suspected SP2 as I've read other horror stories about hardware not working once it is in place. My Windows XP Prof I got last week already has SP2 included - so I can't even separate them *sigh*
 
tibby - that was the issue, thanks ;)

Went to the site and got SP2 specific drivers and it all works
 
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