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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Goutam who wrote (77075)10/26/1999 4:50:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (3) of 1578477
 
AMD & VIA Lovers !! - A Little GLITCH !

SYMPTOMS
Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices that are plugged in to a computer running Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition may not work if the following hardware components are installed on the computer:

An AMD processor (running at 350 MHz or faster)

A VIA Technologies USB controller

Not to worry - Microsoft Bails out AMD once again !

Paul

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support.microsoft.com

USB Devices May Not Work in Windows 98 Second Edition

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The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

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SYMPTOMS
Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices that are plugged in to a computer running Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition may not work if the following hardware components are installed on the computer:

An AMD processor (running at 350 MHz or faster)

A VIA Technologies USB controller

CAUSE
This behavior occurs because there is a timing-specific problem in the Universal Host Controller criver (Uhcd.sys), which may prevent USB devices from enumerating under specific timing conditions.

RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, download and run the appropriate file for your language version of Windows. The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file names below to download the files:

English:

240075up.exe

German:

240075de.exe

Spanish:

240075es.exe

French:

240075fr.exe

Italian:

240075it.exe

Japanese:

240075ja.exe

Portuguese:

240075pt.exe

Swedish:

240075sv.exe
Release Date: Oct-15-1999

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address
microsoft.com
and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center.

This fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Date Time Version Size File name
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08/20/99 1:14pm 4.10.2223 30,528 Uhcd.sys

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows 98 Second Edition.

Additional query words:

Keywords : win98se
Version : WINDOWS:
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug


Last Reviewed: October 22, 1999
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