far Posted January 25, 2005 Share Posted January 25, 2005 Can someone help me out please. I bought a 'PocketSize' (thats the brand) USB hub the model is UH-174BP. When I go put it in windows (2000) doesn't detect it as a USB device, when I click on the arrow and go to properties it says 'the drivers device is not installed (28) to install the drivers for this device click reinstall driver' OK SO I do this and windows finds the driver but then says: 'An error occured during installation of device.The installation failed because driver was not specified for the device instance' Now using my very small amount of hardware knowledge (and I stress SMALL lol) I take it I need to download a driver for this device from somewhere(it didnt come with a CD).Thing is windows 2000 usually detects usb devices so im not sure what to do or get a driver from. Can someone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martynb Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Might be a dumb suggestion but it caught me out and you aren't getting many replies. Is the hub one which can be (optionally) powered ? I had one of those and unless it WAS powered my 2000 box simply didn't recognise it for what it was. I've also seen problems a couple of times with usb 2 devices being plugged into usb 1.0 connectors - should work but hey this is windows. XP seems much better than 2000 at sorting this stuff out. PS. you do know that the pc connector is good? Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
400BHP Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 Try the windows update site, thats normally pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 makes sure you got service pack 4 on, and is the hub usb 2.0?? if it is does your motherboard have usb 2.0 on it?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 26, 2005 Author Share Posted January 26, 2005 I tried to do a search on Microsoft site and it didnt give much info on it, Im pretty sure I got serivce pack 4 - I downloaded the latest stuff only about 1 month ago. The hub is 1.2 (im only running a printer,RF keyboard and sometime SD card) I take it if I have USB2.0 it will be backwards compatible? Anyway it was only 4 squids so I might just buy another but I then have to wait for it to come through and what if that one doesnt work either? Boohoo Any other suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 27, 2005 Author Share Posted January 27, 2005 btt Anyone got anymore ideas before I through this fecker against the wall ? If anyone has any ideas of what I could use this for or creative ideas on how I can destroy it I would like to here from you I was thinking about putting it throught the shredder at work but it migh not fit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
400BHP Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 is this device an external unit or a PCI card? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 27, 2005 Author Share Posted January 27, 2005 Hey 400 - long time no speak! hope you are well.Its an external jobbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
400BHP Posted January 27, 2005 Share Posted January 27, 2005 Hey Far, you can call me chris now, known ya a while... If its external and you are talking about a desktop as opposed to a laptop, then sling it, they're right cheap and you're better off with a version 2 usb anyway. Just get a PCI card and bung it in, should come with a driver disk and presto! all done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 I was talking about a laptop - should I get one like this ok I will destroy it tonight its been p*ssing me off for days now so I will get pleasure in beating the feck out of it with a hammer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
400BHP Posted January 28, 2005 Share Posted January 28, 2005 try HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted January 28, 2005 Author Share Posted January 28, 2005 Cheers dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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