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USB Controller won't find drivers

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imported_cosmotic

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I recently installed a new RAID card and of course Windows XP Pro SP2 along with it.

However, a USB controller is showing up in device manager without a driver.

I have tried clicking reinstall driver and hitting next for it to automatically find the driver and it doesn't.
I have tried pointing it to the Windows INF dir and it doesn't work.
I have tried pointing it to my old windows install (before the raid card) and it installs a driver but then USB doesn't work at all.
I have tried resetting my BIOS to optimized defaults and that doesn't work.
I have tried using the original xp install cd instead of an nliteed one and that doesn't work.

USB works fine except (i think) USB2. Its missing the "Enhanced" controller in the USB section which (based on the device id and such in the registry) seems to be this one thats missing the driver. All the other USB 'devices' have drivers. When I plugged my USB stick into it to transfer drivers, it told me that I plugged a High speed device into a low speed port.

USB worked perfectly before I installed the RAID card and reinstalled windows, no yellow exclamation point, no "You plugged in a high speed device into a low speed port" warning or anything.

Any ideas?
 
shut down, remove the card and reboot, see if they come back, if so, then the card will have to go into another slot.
 
Originally posted by: robisbell
shut down, remove the card and reboot, see if they come back, if so, then the card will have to go into another slot.
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You're saying the RAID controller in another slot?

USB worked fine in the old install with the RAID card in.

I'll give it a shot though.
 
your graphics card is PCI as well? the raid card is conflicting with the USB, we have to find a pci slot that the usb isn't linked to.
 
Well it just doesn't find a driver for the one USB Controller 'device'.

From what I have read, each actual controller consists of three different 'controller's:

USB Enhanced Host Controller (EHCI)
USB Universal Host Controller (UHCI)
USB Open Host Controller (OHCI)

I'm just missing the enhanced one, to which the device ID from the registry of the USB Controller with the exclamation mark matches.

I get no "errors" nor do I get any indication of malfunction outside Windows.

When I get home tonight I'm going to try going back to the hard disk from before the RAID setup and see what happens. I might also try removing the raid card entirely and seeing if installing windows fresh onto a normal disk gets the USB working.

-Charlie
 
The disk I was using isnt in my RAID setup so theres no worries about restore points... I don't use them anyway. I don't believe in system restore =P

Anyway, it turned out to be the install disk. Some how the CD I was using was corrupted or something and didn't have the drivers, so the CDs I nlited off of it didn't either.
 
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