USB FDD (Lacie Pocket USB FDD - Myfloppy3) not detected co..

I am using vista ultimate, on Asus A8N-VM-CSM Motherboard. PC has no
floppy drive and I am attempting to use a USB Floppy drive (Lacie - Pocket
USB FDD Myfloppy3). Upon connection nothing happens, a quick check in
device manager indicates under USB controllers - standard openHCD USB Host
Controller with an (!) exclamation mark. Properties show:

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This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)
If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other
devices on this system.
Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft
and to see if there is a solution available.
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Clicking check for solutions provides nothing. The USB ports on the pc
then fail to work until i uninstall all USB controllers from device
manager and reboot. The USB ports work OK with a flash drive I have, and
the floppy drive functions correctly on an XP PC I have. I can boot from
a boot disk if I have it in the drive whilst the PC reboots. I have
disabled as much as possible in both device manager and BIOS (onboard
audio, onboard VGA, etc).

When plugging the drive into an XP PC the drive is detected as a Y-E brand
device.

Lacie's website has no information regarding this, and the website for Y-E
indicate that the device should work under vista, as it is natively
supported by the OS Drivers. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong direction.

Can someone point me the right direction.

Thanks

Steve

Hi Steven,

> Upon connection nothing happens

Not so, something is happening, it's just not the right thing. There is some
basic incompatibility going on here that is resulting in a resource
conflict. Have you updated the BIOS to the latest instruction set from Asus.
Checked with their support on Vista compatibility with this motherboard?

You already know that the device works ok, and that your USB works ok
otherwise with other devices. It may also be that the device requires a
firmware update to run properly under Vista.

Run System Information (msinfo32) and see what devices are conflicting when
it fails (Hardware/Conflicts).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"steven" wrote in message

>I am using vista ultimate, on Asus A8N-VM-CSM Motherboard. PC has no
>floppy drive and I am attempting to use a USB Floppy drive (Lacie - Pocket
>USB FDD Myfloppy3). Upon connection nothing happens, a quick check in
>device manager indicates under USB controllers - standard openHCD USB Host
>Controller with an (!) exclamation mark. Properties show:
>
> -----
> This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)
> If you want to use this device, you will need to disable one of the other
> devices on this system.
> Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft
> and to see if there is a solution available.
> -----
>
> Clicking check for solutions provides nothing. The USB ports on the pc
> then fail to work until i uninstall all USB controllers from device
> manager and reboot. The USB ports work OK with a flash drive I have, and
> the floppy drive functions correctly on an XP PC I have. I can boot from
> a boot disk if I have it in the drive whilst the PC reboots. I have
> disabled as much as possible in both device manager and BIOS (onboard
> audio, onboard VGA, etc).
>
> When plugging the drive into an XP PC the drive is detected as a Y-E brand
> device.
>
> Lacie's website has no information regarding this, and the website for Y-E
> indicate that the device should work under vista, as it is natively
> supported by the OS Drivers. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong direction.
>
> Can someone point me the right direction.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve