I have a number of USB flash drives and camera memory cards that will not
work properly (hang up) when I use them with my Vista laptop they all work
fine with two laptops running XP. The drivers are installed properly. The
only way they will work is if I shut off the Vista laptop and restart with
the devices inserted. I don't think that this is the way that the Vista OS
developers intented these devices to work but it seems that this is what
resulted from thier efforts.

"Lenny Jacobs" <lijacobs@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have a number of USB flash drives and camera memory cards that will not
>work properly (hang up) when I use them with my Vista laptop they all work
>fine with two laptops running XP. The drivers are installed properly. The
>only way they will work is if I shut off the Vista laptop and restart with
>the devices inserted. I don't think that this is the way that the Vista OS
>developers intented these devices to work but it seems that this is what
>resulted from thier efforts.

Well I have a Vista laptop too, and when I insert my USB flash drives or
memory readers, Vista recognizes them. So to me that says there *is*
something wrong, but *this* time, maybe not with Vista.

There seems to be an unresolved bug in Vista with USB drivers. Despite lots
of postings here, and installing every update there is, I still have random
failure of USB ports. I don't understand why something that worked so well
in XP does not work in Vista.

just a shot in the dark, try turning readyboost off ,vista may see your
flash drives/memory cards as useable memory, also turn off superfetch
and see if that makes a difference, no doubt you will be advised not to
do these things but i would give it a shot, good luck


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"Rich T" <nobody@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> There seems to be an unresolved bug in Vista with USB drivers. Despite
> lots of postings here, and installing every update there is, I still have
> random failure of USB ports. I don't understand why something that worked
> so well in XP does not work in Vista.

I have yet to have any problems with the USB subsystem. Every thing I have
plugged in has worked like a charm. My old peripherals, new stuff. Zero
problems. Now a problem I DID have on one of my old system boards, was the
chipset was a bit wonky. Old Tyan Tiger 133. Ports wouldn't pick up half the
time, and this was under XP. Tried everything. Chipset drivers, drivers in
XP, etc. Wound up just having to pop in a USB 2 card.

My POS Acer under Vista. Not one problem at all. Even picked up the hub on
my NEC monitor. This may be something (mobo chipset) you want to look into.
One thing also to remember. MS does NOT write the drivers. The mfr does.
Might be better served screaming at them.

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"DarkSentinel" wrote:

> "Rich T" <nobody@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:7C090A1A-A226-4040-BB9D-C59E3D02C54C@xxxxxx

> > There seems to be an unresolved bug in Vista with USB drivers. Despite
> > lots of postings here, and installing every update there is, I still have
> > random failure of USB ports. I don't understand why something that worked
> > so well in XP does not work in Vista.

>
> I have yet to have any problems with the USB subsystem. Every thing I have
> plugged in has worked like a charm. My old peripherals, new stuff. Zero
> problems. Now a problem I DID have on one of my old system boards, was the
> chipset was a bit wonky. Old Tyan Tiger 133. Ports wouldn't pick up half the
> time, and this was under XP. Tried everything. Chipset drivers, drivers in
> XP, etc. Wound up just having to pop in a USB 2 card.
>
> My POS Acer under Vista. Not one problem at all. Even picked up the hub on
> my NEC monitor. This may be something (mobo chipset) you want to look into.
> One thing also to remember. MS does NOT write the drivers. The mfr does.
> Might be better served screaming at them.
>
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