Wanted: USB-Expert. please make my day?

[Ekan]

Thank you for your time.
This is my last attempt, after this i do not know where to turn...

I have the Lycky-Star 6VABX2 Motherboard, running on W2000.
Connected to it's USB's, i have a Wacom Graphire (coordless mouse/pen drawing-pad) and i Sony dsc f505 digital camera and they are both behaving in strange ways.
The Wacom pad works for everytnig between 10 min up to an hour, but sooner or later it dies.
The camera can at it's best transfer about two images before an error message apperars, telling me something like: device E: is not available, due to errors in a i/o-unit.
I am not sure what it says in english versions of W2k, since i run the Swedish version, but my translation is close enough i guess...

This is a list of some of the actions i've taken in trying to solve the problem:

*Flashed to latest BIOS & drivers.
*Got all the latest drivers, VIA (4 in one & USB-filter driver), SONY & WACOM...
*Both the VIA Universal host controller & my Soundblaster Live! appears on IRQ 10, so i tried to detatch the soundcard to eliminate the possibility of a conflict.
*Tried all kinds of drivers for the USB-connection, since W2k gave it the "unsupported" VIA-driver as default, resulting in no response when connecting the devices to it, found that the "VIA Universal host controller" seemed to be the best working...

But NONE if this took me any closer to getting them to work...

I also have an issue with the soundcard. When used with, let's say Winamp it works perfectly well and plays mp3's and .WAV, but when i visit pages on the web that uses audio (FLASH-pages)it starts to make this really annoying flickering kind of noise. It seems that the noise is related to the animations on theese pages, since the noise becomes less intense when there is fewer items moving, and you can tell that the noise is N'SYNC with the animation frame-rate..
The really strange thing is that when you open a new and maximized window on top of the flash-window, the sound is PERFECT!!! Spooky huh??

Please help a desperate swede, and if you decide to, please write to me as if i where a complete idiot, since i now commiunicatate i my second language, and i am not an expert on hardware/W2k.

Begging for an answer, be my hero...

 

[Muckshifter]

for some USB help you could try here

http://www.usbman.com/USB_Guides.htm

 

[Ekan]

HEY everybody, looks like it's working now!!!!
Followed some of thew tips at the "USBMAN"-page, and the camera transfers images like newer before! I tried transfering 25 pics in one drag n' drop, it was about 7 mb of jpeg's, voila, no problem!!
Don't ask me what did the trick, i unfortunally madn too many changes at once to isolate the little devil ...

Something is bothering me though, the issue with the soundcard is not solved yet, and the usb host controller is still sharing IRQ 10 with the LIVE!-soundcard (with the problems described in my first entry), how can i manually separate them and assign USB host controller to, say IRQ 9?? When i ran the computer without the LIVE! (temporary disconnected for trouble shooting), the USB host controller ran at IRQ 9, and it did just fine.
I dont know about the wacom tablet, but it has been connected for about half an hour and it is still giong strong!!!
THANX TO ALL OF YOU, hope to hear from anyone about the mystery of my LIVE!-card....
Im gonna rate you all TO THE ROOF!!!