USB Problem in Windows ME

[EBK]

Hi, When I Installed Windows ME from 98 first edition I had problems with the USB (I am now back to 9. I included a picture of the problem below. It says to update the driver, which I did, and it still wouldn't work. I also tried tried to install the VIA 4in1 drivers, but they locked my computer up. I have and AMD 1.4ghz t-bird with 512 mb of pc133 ram, on an GA-7ZX(Rev 5.1) KT133A chipset. I would like to have Windows ME, but I would like to have USB more, So I wanna get rid of this stupid problem.



Any help is appreciated,
Eric

[Braindrain]

Never "upgrade" from ME. Go for fresh install. Countless numbers of people have problems when they upgrade (including me).

[patrickm]

yeah, a clean install is better. you don't need to format though, but delete the registry, DLL's (you can save .ini's to keep program settings and stuff), system, system32, and rename desktop.

you might try and install the v4.27 4-in-1 for the KT133A (works great for me on asus a7v133) with AGP in normal mode. if it still locks up, boot into safe mode and do "msconfig". under static vxd uncheck viagart.vxd.

then hopefully on the next reboot it will recognize and install the rest of the VIA drivers. worst case, do a "driver update" from that screen you showed and find the files it needs manually.

[EBK]

patrickm, thanks for your informative response. How hard would deleting the regristry be? I know computers pretty good, but I don't want to mess anything up. Also, when you said a "clean install" do you mean the full version? Is it even worth the effort to get ME anyways? Or should I wait until XP comes out?

Eric

[TIbrO]

I've used every MS OS since 3.11 all the way to XP, which I am on now. ME was by far the worst and most glitchy. Windows 2000 Professional was the best. XP Professional, which is 2002 Pro, seems to be the same as Win2K, except that now it looks very different, and they recoded a lot of things, and did away with the old Win9x code completely. The OS is super fast and also boots up in 20 seconds, compared to 3 or 4 minutes which it used to take 2000 Pro to boot up. I would wait for XP, which is what I am going to get. I am on the Windows Preview Program Release Candidate 2 beta version build 2526 right now...