PeteC and Neil: I went for the "final solution ". Thanks for all your help and support. jharry
PeteC: I tried your suggestion. Installing usbstor.inf did not solve the problem. I will go and buy a PCMCIA card and see if it works.
I checked HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR, it has a start value 3. There is a usbstor.inf in C:\Windows\inf. The...
There is a usbstor.sys, but no usbstor.inf. All the files in the drivers folder are either .sys or .dll files. Are the .inf files in some other...
I do have a PCMIA port. Do I need to take my laptop to the store to test if buying a PCMIA USB 2.0 card will work, or just buy it and trust my luck?
After restoring from the OEM disk, which included SP2, I updated the OS with SP3. (But not all the post SP3 updates). The Device Manager >...
I don't have a XP OS disk. The OEM has a set of recovery disks. It restored the laptop to the original factory state. But the laptop shows only...
My BIOS has an item "Legacy USB Support" with 2 options: Enabled/Disabled. The normal option is "Enabled ". I tested both options. It did not...
Hi Doug: The ports section of the SIW log showed only 1 line: COM3 There was no description except those 4 characters.
Hi Doug: Thanks for the link to SIW. The information it provided was overwhelming. I still couldn't figure out what the 4 USB controllers were...
Since the driver scanning revealed that there was a USB2 Enhanced host controller, I decided to delve into the Registry. Here is what I found....
I was able to download the chipset drivers from the eu.ecs.com.tw website. After installing the new chipset drivers and rebooting, the problem...
Dear ephemarial: I could not access the URL you suggested, the site took forever to respond. I tried www.ecsusa.com, it did not have any...
I just entered my system information in my user CP. Please check. Thank you. PS: My laptop is 4 years old. This is for Neil: I uninstalled all...
Recently, when I insert a USB flash drive into my laptop's USB port, I get the message: This USB device can perform faster if you connect it to...
Hi Evan Omo: Thanks for your advice. I followed your instructions and my problem was solved. Many thanks. Please consider this thread closed....
I used a 3rd party defragmenter. It showed that I had several large files in C:\temp. But when I tried to delete these files in Windows...
OK. That pretty much wraps it up. Thanks a million for your help. How do I label this thread "Resolved "? Or are you the one who makes that...
I ran combofix /u. The C:\Qoobox folder was removed. But the C:\Combofix.txt file and C:\combofix folder remained (the folder contained 2 files,...
After posting the DrWeb.csv log, I deleted from my computer the affected files listed in the DrWeb.csv, EXCEPT ComboFix.exe and the one in the...
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