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Abit kg7 raid usb problem

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by mew Apr 17, 2002 last reply Jul 17, 2002

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I built a new PC with an Abit KG7 raid board, 1.7 xp athlon and 512 DDR. 100G hard disk and 2x40G. Everything works except my usb. I have upgraded the bios and drivers including the filter as per Abit site. I have usb recognised and working properly in system properties device manager but nothing when I try to access my usb. I am running Win 98 se. As I have a usb adsl router this is a real problem. Can anyone help?
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by thechas Apr 17, 2002

The first thing I would try, is reducing your RAM.

Windows 98 has numerous issues with over 511MB of RAM.
This is very configuration dependant, as not all systems experiance the problems.

You can also browse through the Windows update files, and see if any pertain to your problem.
I know there is a patch for AMD USB controllers.

Chas

by mew Jul 17, 2002

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by yacco Apr 17, 2002

Have loaded the drivers for the USB devices and rebooted before attaching the devices?

by mew Jul 17, 2002

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by pinoy_teknik Apr 18, 2002

May be Chas is right, and i go with him, but if you don't like, try to change your OS to Windows 2000 or XP may be it need a newer one,,,,

Pinoy_Teknik

by mew Jul 17, 2002

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by dcosgrove Apr 18, 2002

Are you using the ports on the mainboard itself or plug in ports on the front? The controller is indepedant of the plugs and will show up as correctly installed even if the plugs are incorrectly installed. try using the ones on the back of the board and also check your bios to see what usb protocols are enabled. Also, what the previous answer stated is valid. You are kind of gypping yourself using win98. I agree it's a great OS but it wont handle all that hardware like XP will.

by dcosgrove Apr 18, 2002

One other item. It may be possible to get a DSL modem that connects via cat5. Even though your DSL may be throttled to less than 1.5 Mbps you will get overall better performance with a nic card than a usb port. Some modems have the option for both, there may be a sticker over the rj45 connector.