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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Goutam who wrote (77075)	10/26/1999 4:50:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578184

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 {===================================} support.microsoft.com USB Devices May Not Work in Windows 98 Second Edition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------- 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