I've had the same problem on a brand new HP Pavillion 9230 running Vista
Home Premium. After working initially some, but not all USB devices stopped
working. The biggest problems were with USB flash drives and SD cards that,
as you say, worked natively under XP and worked initially with Vista.

Other devices that needed their own software/drivers, seemed to keep working
ok.

I spent days chasing HP, and posting on the private Microsoft newsgroups
(I'm a registered partner) all to no avail. I also tried downloading the
reliability patch that Michael refered to in this thread -- that didn't help
either.

I finally broke down and did a complete clean install and all USB devices
are working again.

Unfortunately I didn't keep good records when adding 3rd party programs to
my machine and also found out that Vista doesn't enable system restore
points as a default so I was unable to roll the system back to see where it
broke.

However, thinking back over the past week since I bought my machine, I think
that Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite v9 is to blame.

The Roxio site states that, Easy Media Creator 9, RecordNow 9, and MyDVD 9
are compatabile with Vista. But the Suite version contains many more
components and the Suite has always been a pig to install and remove, even
under XP Pro SP2.

Creative Suite 9 includes the embedded (but bloody hard to find & seemingly
impossible to remove) Sonic DLA which I strongly believe the the cause of
all of my problems. I'm pretty sure that my Firewire drive hibernation and
USB flash drive and SD card problems began about then.

I knew better and was punished for not checking and performing regular
restore points as I installed programs onto Vista -- hopefully someone else
will avoid the same trap.

If you have restore points, try rolling back -- other than that it's a clean
install, I'm afraid.

Hope this helps.

Good luck,

Phil


"Digitalfuzz" wrote in message
...
Okay, after a SMOOTH install of Vista H.P. Ed, EVERY USB device I plug in
gets a "Windows Need to install Drivers For your device". Flash drive,
printer, MP3 (Zen), Wireless Mouse, Etc. These devices are supposed to
have
"native support" drivers built into Vista. Anyone have a suggestion as to
why Vista isnt loading drivers for ANY USB devices?

Oh, yeah. I forgot to add that HP bundles basic versions of Roxio Creator 9
and Roxio MyDVD 9 with Vista Home Premium. These work fine and,
interestingly, the Sonic DLA component is not included.

Cheers,

Phil



"pbhenry" wrote in message
...
I've had the same problem on a brand new HP Pavillion 9230 running Vista
Home Premium. After working initially some, but not all USB devices
stopped working. The biggest problems were with USB flash drives and SD
cards that, as you say, worked natively under XP and worked initially with
Vista.

Other devices that needed their own software/drivers, seemed to keep
working ok.

I spent days chasing HP, and posting on the private Microsoft newsgroups
(I'm a registered partner) all to no avail. I also tried downloading the
reliability patch that Michael refered to in this thread -- that didn't
help either.

I finally broke down and did a complete clean install and all USB devices
are working again.

Unfortunately I didn't keep good records when adding 3rd party programs to
my machine and also found out that Vista doesn't enable system restore
points as a default so I was unable to roll the system back to see where
it broke.

However, thinking back over the past week since I bought my machine, I
think that Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite v9 is to blame.

The Roxio site states that, Easy Media Creator 9, RecordNow 9, and MyDVD 9
are compatabile with Vista. But the Suite version contains many more
components and the Suite has always been a pig to install and remove, even
under XP Pro SP2.

Creative Suite 9 includes the embedded (but bloody hard to find &
seemingly impossible to remove) Sonic DLA which I strongly believe the the
cause of all of my problems. I'm pretty sure that my Firewire drive
hibernation and USB flash drive and SD card problems began about then.

I knew better and was punished for not checking and performing regular
restore points as I installed programs onto Vista -- hopefully someone
else will avoid the same trap.

If you have restore points, try rolling back -- other than that it's a
clean install, I'm afraid.

Hope this helps.

Good luck,

Phil


"Digitalfuzz" wrote in message
...
Okay, after a SMOOTH install of Vista H.P. Ed, EVERY USB device I plug in
gets a "Windows Need to install Drivers For your device". Flash drive,
printer, MP3 (Zen), Wireless Mouse, Etc. These devices are supposed to
have
"native support" drivers built into Vista. Anyone have a suggestion as
to
why Vista isnt loading drivers for ANY USB devices?

OMG! That was it! EVERYTHING installed now. I did have to go thru Device
Manager and remove all traces of "attempted" install. But, s soon as I
directed the setup to C:\Windows, they all installed.

Thanks Al. If I do find a way to change or direct the driver install
process to look in that directory I ill post it.

Thanks agin to all who answered.

"Alberto Di Meglio" wrote:

Hi,

Same problem here. I have to explicitly tell the "new hardware found"
wizard to look into c:\windows for the drivers. When I do this, the
built-in drivers for most USB devices are found and the devices are
installed. This happens even with simple USB memory cards. I suspect it's
some flaw in the default driver search path. Anybody knows how to
set/change it?

A

thanks Phil,

I too had the same problem with the Sonic DLA. I could NOT getrid of it!
My first (lazy) install of Vista wasn't the clean install. DLA problems
quickly changed my mind. The USB problems started after the clean install
(the OS, by the way, works flawlessly otherwise). I was just about to do
another clean install, but Al's advice worked (so far) on everything that
wasn't working before.

Good luck



"pbhenry" wrote:

I've had the same problem on a brand new HP Pavillion 9230 running Vista
Home Premium. After working initially some, but not all USB devices stopped
working. The biggest problems were with USB flash drives and SD cards that,
as you say, worked natively under XP and worked initially with Vista.

Other devices that needed their own software/drivers, seemed to keep working
ok.

I spent days chasing HP, and posting on the private Microsoft newsgroups
(I'm a registered partner) all to no avail. I also tried downloading the
reliability patch that Michael refered to in this thread -- that didn't help
either.

I finally broke down and did a complete clean install and all USB devices
are working again.

Unfortunately I didn't keep good records when adding 3rd party programs to
my machine and also found out that Vista doesn't enable system restore
points as a default so I was unable to roll the system back to see where it
broke.

However, thinking back over the past week since I bought my machine, I think
that Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite v9 is to blame.

The Roxio site states that, Easy Media Creator 9, RecordNow 9, and MyDVD 9
are compatabile with Vista. But the Suite version contains many more
components and the Suite has always been a pig to install and remove, even
under XP Pro SP2.

Creative Suite 9 includes the embedded (but bloody hard to find & seemingly
impossible to remove) Sonic DLA which I strongly believe the the cause of
all of my problems. I'm pretty sure that my Firewire drive hibernation and
USB flash drive and SD card problems began about then.

I knew better and was punished for not checking and performing regular
restore points as I installed programs onto Vista -- hopefully someone else
will avoid the same trap.

If you have restore points, try rolling back -- other than that it's a clean
install, I'm afraid.

Hope this helps.

Good luck,

Phil


"Digitalfuzz" wrote in message
...
Okay, after a SMOOTH install of Vista H.P. Ed, EVERY USB device I plug in
gets a "Windows Need to install Drivers For your device". Flash drive,
printer, MP3 (Zen), Wireless Mouse, Etc. These devices are supposed to
have
"native support" drivers built into Vista. Anyone have a suggestion as to
why Vista isnt loading drivers for ANY USB devices?

ALL USB Devices need drivers???Good find Alberto!

I wish I had seen your post before I did the clean re-install!

Best wishes,

Phil
"Alberto Di Meglio" wrote in message t...
Hi,

Same problem here. I have to explicitly tell the "new hardware found" wizard to look into c:\windows for the drivers. When I do this, the built-in drivers for most USB devices are found and the devices are installed. This happens even with simple USB memory cards. I suspect it's some flaw in the default driver search path. Anybody knows how to set/change it?

A.

"Digitalfuzz" wrote:

thanks Phil,

I too had the same problem with the Sonic DLA. I could NOT getrid of it!
My first (lazy) install of Vista wasn't the clean install. DLA problems
quickly changed my mind. The USB problems started after the clean install
(the OS, by the way, works flawlessly otherwise). I was just about to do
another clean install, but Al's advice worked (so far) on everything that
wasn't working before.

Good luck



"pbhenry" wrote:

I've had the same problem on a brand new HP Pavillion 9230 running Vista
Home Premium. After working initially some, but not all USB devices stopped
working. The biggest problems were with USB flash drives and SD cards that,
as you say, worked natively under XP and worked initially with Vista.

Other devices that needed their own software/drivers, seemed to keep working
ok.

I spent days chasing HP, and posting on the private Microsoft newsgroups
(I'm a registered partner) all to no avail. I also tried downloading the
reliability patch that Michael refered to in this thread -- that didn't help
either.

I finally broke down and did a complete clean install and all USB devices
are working again.

Unfortunately I didn't keep good records when adding 3rd party programs to
my machine and also found out that Vista doesn't enable system restore
points as a default so I was unable to roll the system back to see where it
broke.

However, thinking back over the past week since I bought my machine, I think
that Roxio Easy Media Creator Suite v9 is to blame.

The Roxio site states that, Easy Media Creator 9, RecordNow 9, and MyDVD 9
are compatabile with Vista. But the Suite version contains many more
components and the Suite has always been a pig to install and remove, even
under XP Pro SP2.

Creative Suite 9 includes the embedded (but bloody hard to find & seemingly
impossible to remove) Sonic DLA which I strongly believe the the cause of
all of my problems. I'm pretty sure that my Firewire drive hibernation and
USB flash drive and SD card problems began about then.

I knew better and was punished for not checking and performing regular
restore points as I installed programs onto Vista -- hopefully someone else
will avoid the same trap.

If you have restore points, try rolling back -- other than that it's a clean
install, I'm afraid.

Hope this helps.

Good luck,

Phil


"Digitalfuzz" wrote in message
...
Okay, after a SMOOTH install of Vista H.P. Ed, EVERY USB device I plug in
gets a "Windows Need to install Drivers For your device". Flash drive,
printer, MP3 (Zen), Wireless Mouse, Etc. These devices are supposed to
have
"native support" drivers built into Vista. Anyone have a suggestion as to
why Vista isnt loading drivers for ANY USB devices?

I knew I can count on this forum to solve my issue with a 7140xi printer that
I was having. I fought with the Tech support at HP and the office of the
President and all they told me was that someone would look into and get back
to me. after 17 years in this business I have no faith in Tech. Companies at
all. Thanks to all the folks that looked into this.



Greg .V.

"Gregory Vartanian" wrote:

I knew I can count on this forum to solve my issue with a 7140xi printer that
I was having. I fought with the Tech support at HP and the office of the
President and all they told me was that someone would look into and get back
to me. after 17 years in this business I have no faith in Tech. Companies at
all. Thanks to all the folks that looked into this.



Greg .V.