vista ult x64 and usb drivers

[waterstar]

It seems as if loads of folk have vista usb problems - I have searched many sites and forums without luck to solve mine

Finished my new build with Gigabyte p35-ds3p and core 2 duo. 8 USB ports
Copied chipset files from Gigabyte CD and put on usb stick.
Booted new PC from Vista Disc - it saw and I could use the usb (to load drivers)
Installed Vista, rebooted and installed several applications
Installed Creative USB WebCam - and had it operating

Tried to install External Hard Drive - problem that driver wasn't signed - didn't install
Webcam not working Plugged in USB stick - nothing happened

Device Manager sees the USB controller
usbstor.inf exists (have copied back from both repository areas)
have tried placing it in new folder
have disabled / enabled and reapplied drivers - no success

In device manager - against each usb get message
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing (Code 39)

Any ideas would be appreciated

 

[dmex]

Hi WaterStar,

Have you just tried using the default Vista drivers? Some of the chipset driver installers don't work very well with Vista...

Steven

 

[waterstar]

Hi Steven

I found (late last night) that the culprit appeared to be an unsigned driver. AFter wasting most of the day trying to solve it, I reinstalled Vista which did the trick (I hope).

Now have usb availability but given the research into solving the problem I've seen reports of vista loosing usb support after a sleep....

However for now I'm optimistic - nice fast machine with usb

Thanks for suggestion