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Strange Linux -> Windows USB problem

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Hi, I've been having this strange problem that has just annoyed me that little bit too much so I'm posting it here. I've got dual boot with Windows 2000 and Linux RH9 going, and after I boot into Linux and back into Windows my USB starts to play up. Here's the thing though - it will work if I reboot (without powering down the machine) but if I power down, then start up the computer in Windows, USB will stop working!

I've checked over the BIOS settings and USB hasn't been disabled there. While RH9 is booting and its starting up services, the mouse glow turns on AS SOON AS it is checking for new hardware.

Can anyone help?

Edit: To take out so incorrect info.
 
UPDATE: so far the only way I've gotten USB to work under Windows is to first boot up into Linux, then reboot and start up Windows. Otherwise Windows reports that my USB drivers are not installed.

I'm guessing its an issue with my motherboard, I have an ASUS A7N8X nForce2 mobo.
 
If Windows won't use the USB from a cold boot on it's own, I'd say the Windows USB drivers are screwed. I could maybe see it breaking in Windows after you reboot from RH, because the Linux drivers might not put the hardware into a known good state that Windows expects but Windows should be able to start them up from scratch.

You could try updating your BIOS, but I would blame Windows since the hardware works in Linux.
 
n0cmonkey, I will try to update the Nvidia drivers for my mobo later, forgot about trying that 😀. I don't really want to update Linux because of the pain I went through getting OpenGL support for my video card to work under RH9.

Nothinman, I would think Windows drivers are screwed too, however this is a fresh installation of Win2k, its possible the USB drivers for windows are broken in this situation. I have tried different versions of the generic nVidia drivers for my mobo, none work. The funny thing is that Windows USB worked correctly for a few weeks until I booted into Linux again, and now USB (in Windows) is in this cycle of not wanting to work unless I boot into Linux then reboot the computer.
 
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