USB, hard drive and DVD problems

and reinstalled XP. What else are you not telling us?

1.) Typical behavior if the USB-2 drivers have not been installed.

2.) Same on the hard drive drivers.

Have you reinstalled all the motherboard drivers?

3.) WMP does not come with codecs for DVDs. You need DVD player software.

...about 2 weeks ago and I reinstalled Windows. The first thing that I did after Windows insatlled was to install the USB, chipset, and network drivers that came with the motherboard.

Hard drive drivers? I thought that Windows XP had a built-in hard drive driver? Anyway, my hard drive is an OEM drive; it didn't come with any CDs or anything like that.

Installing Windows is not easy. But you had it proper before. Just repeat what you did the first time or check the install directions for your system.

Bob

...it asked me if I need to install a 3rd party SSCI or RAID driver, which I did not. The only drivers that came with the motherboard are an SATA RAID driver and drivers for the chipset, USB and onboard LAN.

All of these problems started happening after I installed this motherboard and CPU; before I was using a P4 and an HP motherboard. My PC was originally an HP, and that's why I don't have any documentation or anything for the hard drive.

And maybe I should mention that I'm using XP Home with SP2 and all the latest updates.

USB:
Have you installed the latest nForce4 ADM drivers? http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_winxp32_x16_6.85
Also, make sure BIOS->Integrated Peripherals->OnChip USB is set to V1.1+V2.0.

HD:
SATA drives are typically exposed as ATA devices by the mobo unless you turn on RAID. As for your C: being removable, make sure its write policy is "optimized for performance." I'll do some more checking to see how to tell Windows its not removable.

DVD:
XP doesn't come with a DVD decoder. You need a third party product like Nero (full version), PowerDVD, WinDVD, etc. in order to watch DVDs. There's probably a decoder on your HP software CDs but with the new hardware, it may not think it's an HP PC.

...it was the first thing I did after I installed WIndows. I don't have any CDs that originally came with the computer; it was a refurb. I'll download PowerDVD later today and tell what happens.

are you using front or rear usb ports? if it still complains about faster operation with the rear ports, something's wrong with the setup. if it only complains with front ports, then they may not be usb 2.0 compliant. (don't know what the diff is but my front's only work at 1.1).

The USB ports on the back of the motherboard are USB 2.0, along with the ports on the side of the case. I get the same message if I plug the device into either port. BTW, the difference between USB 1.1 and 2.0 is the speed; I can't remember them off-hand, but USB 2.0 is a LOT faster than 1.1.