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ASUS A7V266-E Woes, Help!

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ZurgDawg

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Hi All -

Looks like I'm joining the forms here due to the amazing USB support from Via/MSFT/Mobo Manufacturers. Here are my symptoms -

I am Running:

WinXP-Pro
ASUS A7V266-E Bios 1005e Final
AMD Athlon XP 1700
512 Crucial Ram
... (Let me know if you want more) ...

USB Devices I have:

iOmega 250 Zip USB
Logitech USB Mouseman (Basic Optical Mouse w/ wheel)
4 Port USB Hub
Epson Stylus Photo 870 Printer
Sandisk Compact Flash Reader

All of the devices are 'detected' in WinXP (little window opens by the clock saying it has found the hardware and installed it) but there are serious crash/hang up problems when using any of them.

My printer is most important to me so I have been focusing on that, I have unplugged all other USB devices and switched to a PS/2 Mouse for the moment. When I plug in the printer & turn it on - Windows detects it and installs it *successfully*. When I go to print it either.

1. Gets all slow and crashes the program
2. Starts to pring (Only gets out the first line) then instantly reboots my computer and then it locks during the reboot until I do a cold boot or unplug the device.

I have tried MSFT's drivers for it, the Epson XP drivers, the latest 4 in 1 drivers, using the latest bios and still nothing that I can find.

Does anyone out there have any ideas? Please let me know what you think!
(Thanks but buying a new PCI card is not an *idea* - that is giving in!)

zurG

 
I dont know about the rest of the stuff but as for the printer I had the same type of problem with my Xerox printer and windows XP.
It took me covernting it back to an parallel port to finally get it to work even though xerox has win xp support (but dont ask them for help with it...they just send/tell u their intructions on how to install the drivers...twice so far). I'm starting to get the feeling microsoft didnt develope xp for usb too well or they didnt tell companies what they needed to program for cause i have a hell of a time getting anything usb to work corretly on a sis chipset as well.
 
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