usb on bp6, W2K. Not working. To fix?

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'Lo.

I got my BP6 up and running after not using it much for a year or more. I built it as a Beos box but had w98 and w2k and linux installed as well.

After deleting the linux installation ( it wasn't fun ) my w2k wouldn't boot. Stoopid os, really. So, I just got w2k installed again (after buying a disk, sheesh) and its running fine except the usb ports dont work. Never used the usb on this box before. Beos didn't use them and I had a parallel port printer. Now I have a usb printer for my broken IBook that I want to use.

Beos wont see the network that I am using here, dunno why. I am setup at a cyber cafe in PetionVille, Haiti with a wireless link from Netaccess to the server upstairs, then thru an NT4 server which no one knows how to service then into a linksys wireless/ethernet port. DHCP is coming thru, but Beos won't catch it. Too old I guess. Ah well.

So win2000 SP3 works fine on the network but I cannot figure out how to get the usb working. Installed windows updates but nothing happened.

When i built this box I installed the latest bios, whatever that was.

I ran it as non-pnp for years cause it was a beos box primarily. I have it set to activate pnp now.

Any answers?

david lyall
www.lyalls.net

 

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Oh, mesi anpil. It does work now.

I thought fer shure that I had updated BIOS around year 2000 but I was apparently wrong. Put the newest bios in and moved that little ccmos jumper, started it up again and the usb ports are there. Kul!

david lyall
www.lyalls.net

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'Lo.

I got my BP6 up and running after not using it much for a year or more.
I built it as a Beos box but had w98 and w2k and linux installed as well.

I'm running Windows 2K Advanced Server with full USB - make sure that you install the latest Firmware on the motherboard, and my USB driver shows Microsoft 6/19/2003 ver 5.0.2183.1 by Microsoft. ...