9fingers
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I purchased a no-name 4 port unpowered USB 2.0 hub from the bay recently.
All computers referred to are running Win XP sp3 quite satisfactorily (apart from this problem!) and I intend to stick with XP
I plugged it into my laptop and it failed to find the driver needed and failed to install. Contacted the seller who maintains that no additional drivers are needed.
So I plugged into my desktop machine - installed and works fine there trouble is I want it for the lappy!
I looked to see what driver it was using and saw that on the desktop m/c it had used
c:\windows\system32\drivers\usbhub.sys
I then checked on the laptop and that file - same date & version number is on the laptop drive and in the same location.
Re-inserted the hub into the laptop and tried to manually steer it to use the same file and it gets as far as the System32 directory but then it only offers \dsdn or \etc as choices because it will only look for files with a .inf extension. There is not an option to show files with all extensions
I am now confused and well beyond my level of understanding!!
Can anyone help please?
tia
Bob
All computers referred to are running Win XP sp3 quite satisfactorily (apart from this problem!) and I intend to stick with XP
I plugged it into my laptop and it failed to find the driver needed and failed to install. Contacted the seller who maintains that no additional drivers are needed.
So I plugged into my desktop machine - installed and works fine there trouble is I want it for the lappy!
I looked to see what driver it was using and saw that on the desktop m/c it had used
c:\windows\system32\drivers\usbhub.sys
I then checked on the laptop and that file - same date & version number is on the laptop drive and in the same location.
Re-inserted the hub into the laptop and tried to manually steer it to use the same file and it gets as far as the System32 directory but then it only offers \dsdn or \etc as choices because it will only look for files with a .inf extension. There is not an option to show files with all extensions
I am now confused and well beyond my level of understanding!!
Can anyone help please?
tia
Bob