2.0 5 port USB pci card wows

What operating system is it? Are you loading the correct drivers fr your operating system?

sorry about that I am using Win 98 SE.  And I am using the drivers that came with the product.  

It installs fine but teh exclamation mark is in the device manager

thansk

jasguild

Do you have any details on the actual product? Like Brand name model number? Have you tried the latest drive set from the manufacturers webiste?

Something simple you can try , assuming you haven't done anything special in the bios of your pc. Remove the exclamation marks from device manager and shutdown and restart the machine. Go into the BIOS of the PC and try loading the default values make sure Plug and Play is set to YES/ON. See if there is an advanced menu that has an option called Reset Configuration Data, set that to ON/YES save changes and exit and see if will install ok this time.

Check also in Device manager to see if you actually have available resources to be installing another card. If you don't have an available IRQ then you may need to disable somethings you don't use. Alot of the time people don't use com ports but still have them taking resources. Disabling the com ports in the bios of the motherboard will let you free those resources up and try installing the card again.

how would I know if I am out of resources?   I am now using all my pci slots.

jasguild

How many PCI slots do you have?

Generally you have 15 IRQs. Go to Device Manager and highlight Computer and press properties. You can then view the Interupts IRQs being used if you have used all 15 you are going to need to look at possibly disabling things you aren't using.

Or there is a possibility you don't have any available resources hence you won't be able to utilise this card in your current config.

If you need free irq, you can disable the serial port(s) in your bios (com1/com2 - irq4/3).

After that, go delete yellow "!" in control panel/system and reinstall your card.

Good luck.

I would also go into the BIOS and disable you on board USB ports since you probably will not be needing them.
This should free up some resources.

You may get explanation marks on them later, but that is because you disabled them.

After the BIOS step, reboot, remove  ALL the USB devices, reboot again, and hopefully the they will be reinstalled.

Also look into a new BIOS, if may give you more options.

BIOS
http://www.wimsbios.com/
http://www.ping.be/bios/numbersami.shtml - Old
http://www.motherboards.org/ubb/Forum2/HTML/
or check the motherboard manufacturers website.
To ID it go to http://www.sysopt.com/mboard.html


I hope this helps !


I hope this helps !

sometimes your first and last pci slots share the same irq, also try going to the manufacturer's website and dl the newest driver for your os

You know I think I may be out of IRQ's.  I see every number between 1 - 15 except 9.  Also some devices have the same number.

The thing is the documentation for the USB card says that there should be 5 entries in the device manager for the card.  Of the five entries, three are functioning well.  It is only the last two which are to be handled by the "NEC PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller" driver that have the yellow exclamation mark.

Someone suggested I disable the serial port?? Am I not using that for something maybe my mouse?? My mouse is listed as a ps/2 mouse.

jasguild

Hey wokboy

HOw do I check to see if I lack sufficient resources??

jasguild

Hey Frache

You said "If you need free irq, you can disable the serial port(s) in your bios (com1/com2 - irq4/3)"  

IF I disabled the serial port, which you point out uses com 1/com2 - irq 4/3, wil that affect other devices using those configurations?

jasguild

Hey Wokboy

The enhanced  Host controller is using IRQ 5.  My sound card is also on IRQ 5.  How do I coax it to use IRQ 9???

thanks

jasguild

ok in device manager when you choose properties there is a section on resources. You should be able change the IRQ there when you change it it should tell you if there are conflicts..check I/O and memory address to see if it says there are conflicts.

some bios's will also let u change irq's in the bios settings

jasguild : Please see me previous comment on freeing up resources.

Also - You may need to go into SAFE mode to make any IRQ changes.

I hope this helps !

Hi everyone

After exhausting all that I know and all of your suggestions, I tried to get tech support from the card maker for which there was none.  After putting one and one together, I realized that the card I bought was a piece of generic junk. (no name on the box though the packaging was very colorful and attractive and no tech support) So I repacked it and took it back to the mom & pop store I got it from.

Went to best buy and bought a SIIG Card.  Installed with no issue.  

As always, thanks for your help.  I learned a lot from the discussion.

Sincerely

jasguild

Thanks again.

jasguild