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June 23rd, 2003 17:00

4550 with Win 2000K not finding the USB controller

There seems to be this persistent yellow exclamation mark when you install win2000 on a 4550 that comes with XP (i dislike XP home)

where do you find this driver? or get rid of this yellow exclamation mark on hardware devices??
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    Posted June 23rd, 2003 17:00

    Did you install the Windows 2K chipset drivers for your motherboard?

    Steve

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    Posted June 23rd, 2003 21:00

    yes. loaded that. tha'ts the weird thing. it always does this with the 4550 series. and win2K with sp2. i have two 2550 series and both have this problem...very odd.
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    Posted June 23rd, 2003 22:00

    It is not so odd when you consider that Dell never desinged these series to run run Windows 2000.  Did you go to the Windows update site to see if you can find the patch that installs USB 2.0 drivers under windwos 2000.

    Steve

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    Posted June 23rd, 2003 22:00

    AH! so the 4550 is not designed for 2K...that explains a TON then...heh. i thought i was losing my MIND with all these installs!!! ok..xp pro it is...
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    Posted June 24th, 2003 06:00

    i just can't win it would seem. i just installed xp, did the chipset off dell.com as well as other patches/drivers

    and now i still can't find the "generic ieee 1284.4 printing support" AND "universal serial USB controller" in other devices...this USB thing seems universal in both XP AND 2K...

    am i missing something?
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    Posted June 24th, 2003 12:00

    Windows XP Service Pack 1 adds support for USB 2.0.  Did you install SP -1?  I don't know about the "ieee 1284.4 printing support".

    Steve

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