I agree with you about USB another consistent problem area appears to be DVD
and CD drives.
Hopefully SP1 resolves many of the issues in these frustration areas. Both
of my systems are on RC1 now and one of my DVD issues appear to be resolved.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message
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Yes, I know that. As I said, just sharing an experience.

The flash drive in question meets the specs nicely. My point is that all
the folks posting here with mysterious problems with usb devices aren't
just blowing smoke. I see it too with flash drives and external hard
drive enclosures. There is more to all this than so-called marginal
devices. I have come to the conclusion that the issues also involve mobos
as well. Oddly, my older mobos fare much better than my newer ones when it
comes to using these devices on Vista.

My heart goes out to the folks reporting these maddening issues. It isn't
just them and it isn't just the devices. It isn't even just Vista. It
how complicated usb can get when all these factors come together. I am
coming to the conclusion that it really is a crap shoot.

"JW" wrote in message
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The ability of a flash drive or card to work successfully as a Ready
Boost drive in Vista is totally dependent on the speed of the flash
device. Devices whose speed is marginal especially depending on the speed
of their interface connection will work on one boot and fail on the next.
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message
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Just sharing an experience.

These ReadyBoost usb thumb drives seem to be a real hit and miss thing.
I just bought a Patriot 16GB Xporter XTBoost usb thumb drive.

I tried it on one computer running Vista Ultimate x64 and the machine
just kept trying to find a driver for it but never succeeded in mounting
it.

I tried it on another computer running VU x86 and it came right up and
let me configure it for ReadyBoost.

I then booted into a VU x64 installation on that same computer and it
configured it for storage fine but failed it for ReadyBoost.

Go figure!

As closely as I can tell, it just depends on the mobo and quality of the
usb ports.