Some members have remarked that the columnist Greg Shultz circulates useless tips but with his useless tip, I have solved a problem that worried me for many months. Microsoft had no clue. Internet search also land me with an empty hand and a sore brain. A waste of countless hours! Here is the story.
My event viewer was showing the following error:
“The %OWC_USBEHCD.DeviceDesc% service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.”
The only think I could get out from the many searches was a problem with a USB driver.
All the USB devices where working properly. The Device Manager did not show any problem either but the silly message was there every day. I queried the Win-XP Pet but it looked at me with his sorry big eyes saying that there was not such device in the computer. In vane, I even checked the registry. Desolated, frustrated, discouraged, dehumanized I give up the search for the phantasm device, as I had no other information then USB device (no mother, no father, just a bastard!).
However, what is the other word for phantasm? You are all right. Ghost.
What was a silly and simple tip from our Shultz resolved my problem. How?
Indirectly, as I did not think anymore about the problem, out of curiosity I followed the instruction given by Shultz on how to see and remove ghost devices.
When I opened System Devices from The Devices Manager window, I find many ghosts and between them to my surprise, there was %OWC_USBEHCD. DeviceDesc%. I was euphoric and delighted. All the needed information was in the property of the ghost driver and by deleting the ghost device and removing the entry in the registry and from the system32 folder the problem was solved. Alleluia!
Nevertheless, the story does not end here because after removing the ghost device, a new message came out saying, ?USB device has been removed?, but I solved this problem easily by reinstalling the Microsoft Enhanced Host Controller Driver.
By the way, from the property of the driver I have found out that the three letters OWC stand for Orange Ware Corporation (I know that you knew it!). How this driver (OUSBEHCI.SYS) came into my computer!? It is a mystery. Sometimes lack of knowledge is bliss.
Please Shultz continue writing your silly tips. I have a great collection of them. God bless you. Thanks.