WIN 7 Major USB Hardware Incompatibilities ?
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From: SC Tom on 21 Feb 2010 07:52 "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam(a)never.spam> wrote in message news:hlqdf1$di7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Yes . > Very few Manufacturers of hardware are saying Win 7 Compat or not. > All most none in the case of Devices more than a year or 2 out of > production. > (\__/) > (='.'=) > (")_(") mouse > When you ran the WUA, was all this hardware on and running? Did you get any warnings about some of your hardware or software? A few more particulars would be helpful, such as PC type/manufacturer, CPU, RAM installed, etc. Are you using on-board USB ports, or are you hooking all this stuff through an external box? If so, is it self-powered, or externally powered? So far, I haven't run into anything that I couldn't get to work with Win7, USB or not, and some of my stuff is pretty old in computer years. Guess I've been lucky. I have to use Vista drivers on my all-in-one printer, but it works fine. One suggestion was to hook your modem up with UTP instead of USB if it's capable. I wholeheartedly agree with that, even if it means getting a $20 internal NIC. My speeds are much better with a more consistent connection and fewer download errors. -- SC Tom
From: Conor on 21 Feb 2010 08:00 In article <hlq823$lil$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Trimble Bracegirdle says... > BUT I have a number of USB Hardware devices that are fine under XP ... > THAT MUST FOR ME, WORK ! in Win 7 & won't :( > > a USB ADSL MODEM ... a USB DIGITAL TV Box ...A USB SCANNER ...a USB > GRAPHIC TABLET .. > Have you actually bothered going to the manufacturers website and seeing if there are Vista or Win7 drivers for them? -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Maurice Batey on 21 Feb 2010 12:06 On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:52:32 -0500, SC Tom wrote: > So far, I haven't run into anything that I couldn't get to work with Win7, > USB or not, Running W7 'Home Premium' (i.e. one of the 'crippled' versions), I find that the Boot-US bootloader installer cannot write to diskette - even when I run it as Administrator: "Access denied". No problem formatting the diskette, Wordpad had no problem writing a test file to it, and I had no problem then deleting it - even running as ordinary user. Guess the Boot-US code is trying to do something dodgy... Found nothing relevant in a search on sysinternals.com. -- /\/\aurice (Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email)
From: SC Tom on 21 Feb 2010 13:37 "Maurice Batey" <maurice(a)nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message news:pan.2010.02.21.17.06.11.431304(a)nomail.afraid.org... > On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:52:32 -0500, SC Tom wrote: > >> So far, I haven't run into anything that I couldn't get to work with >> Win7, >> USB or not, > > Running W7 'Home Premium' (i.e. one of the 'crippled' versions), Why do you consider it "crippled"? -- SC Tom > I find that the Boot-US bootloader installer cannot write to diskette - > even when I run it as Administrator: "Access denied". > > No problem formatting the diskette, Wordpad had no problem writing > a test file to it, and I had no problem then deleting it - even > running as ordinary user. > > Guess the Boot-US code is trying to do something dodgy... > > Found nothing relevant in a search on sysinternals.com. > -- > /\/\aurice > (Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email) >
From: Nil on 21 Feb 2010 19:45
On 20 Feb 2010, "Trimble Bracegirdle" <no-spam(a)never.spam> wrote in alt.windows7.general: > BUT I have a number of USB Hardware devices that are fine under > XP ... THAT MUST FOR ME, WORK ! in Win 7 & won't :( > > a USB ADSL MODEM ... a USB DIGITAL TV Box ...A USB SCANNER ...a > USB GRAPHIC TABLET .. Scanners are always the first things to be abandoned by driver writers if it doesn't work now, I doubt it ever will. Especially for a 64-bit OS - I think separate drivers are needed, I believe. The hardware manufacturers are responsible for drivers, not Microsoft. I wouldn't call it a a hardware incompatibility, not a "Win 7" incompatibility. > I tried Vista out (& did not like it) some time ago, same machine, > & these Devices were all OK. But was it 64-bit Vista? If not, I bet these devices wouldn't have worked there, either. A quick web search finds quite a few suggested remedies for similar problems - installing the drivers as Administrator, updating the motherboard chipset driver and/or BIOS, etc. So, there may be a workaround. |