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PCI to USB Universal Host Controller (cannot load driver)

Nov 6, 2004 6:59AM PST

Hi,

I have a Pentium II (266mhz) running Windows 98. I just installed an ATX form card onto the motherboard and, set the USB to "enable" in the BIOS. Windows 98 detected a new device and attempted to install a driver for it. Of course, it wasn't able to find any drivers. When I clicked "system" in the control pannel a device was indicated as "Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller. When I clicked on the device to see the status, a message saying "the NTKERN.VXD device loader(s) for this device could not load driver (code2)"

also, it appears as though the following drivers were being searched for:

c:\windows\system\vmm32.vxd (NTKERN.VSD)
c:\windows\system32\drivers\usbhub.sys
c:\windows\system32\drivers\usbd.sys
c:\windows\system32\drivers\uhcd.sys

Does anyone know where I can get these drivers? I would very much appreciate any information this, thank you.

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Re: PCI to USB Universal Host Controller (cannot load driver
Nov 6, 2004 7:20AM PST

Even a P2 board may need a motherboard driver package. You didn't tell what mainboard you have or if some HP/Dell/other so I can't help you find it.

Here's a site with most of this information. I will not duplicate it's content here -> http://www.usbman.com

Bob

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Re: PCI to USB Universal Host Controller (cannot load driver
Dec 1, 2004 11:26PM PST

I am having the same problem except that I have a penteum III but I am running 98se. When I go to Divice Manager and click on the USB ROOT HUB that is erroring it gives me the same message but with a fix and that is to update the driver. When I click on the update driver windows finds the driver and loads it. After that it wants you to restart the computer for the changes to take place. After restarting the computer I still have the same error.

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Microsoft does not supply this driver.
Dec 1, 2004 11:33PM PST

Even a P3 board may need a motherboard driver package. You didn't tell what mainboard you have or if some HP/Dell/other so I can't help you find it.

Here's a site with most of this information. I will not duplicate it's content here -> http://www.usbman.com

Bob