WIN 7 Major USB Hardware Incompatibilities ?
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From: mike on 22 Feb 2010 07:22 Nil wrote: > 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. It's Microsoft's responsibility to make their new OS compatible with the hardware I already have. I'm sure they have a lot of excuses. I don't want excuses. I want my (*(*& hardware to continue to work!!! It may not support new features, but it should do at least what it used to do. Period!!! Microsoft has let us down in that area. Sorry for any inconvenience, my A$$. > >> I tried Vista out (& did not like it) some time ago, same machine, >> & these Devices were all OK. > > But was it 64-bit Vista? If not, I bet these devices wouldn't have > worked there, either. > > A quick web search finds quite a few suggested remedies for similar > problems - installing the drivers as Administrator, updating the > motherboard chipset driver and/or BIOS, etc. So, there may be a > workaround.
From: Maurice Batey on 22 Feb 2010 12:13 On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:37:03 -0500, SC Tom wrote: > Why do you consider it "crippled"? Not my description! Was used by other W7 users in another forum, probably because various options are missing here and there. -- /\/\aurice (Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email)
From: Maurice Batey on 22 Feb 2010 12:16 On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:06:20 +0000, Maurice Batey wrote: > Guess the Boot-US code is trying to do something dodgy... > > Found nothing relevant in a search on sysinternals.com. Turns out the Boot-US code *was* doing something dodgy. A corrected version now happily writes the diskette. Windows 7 exonerated... -- /\/\aurice (Replace "nomail.afraid" by "bcs" to reply by email)
From: Al Smith on 22 Feb 2010 13:32 mike wrote: > It's Microsoft's responsibility to make their new OS compatible with the > hardware I already have. I'm sure they have a lot of excuses. > I don't want excuses. I want my (*(*& hardware to continue to work!!! > It may not support new features, but it should do at least what it used > to do. > Period!!! > Microsoft has let us down in that area. Sorry for any inconvenience, > my A$$. Tell me about it. I've got a perfectly good Epson Perfection Photo 1260 flatbed scanner, and it won't run under Windows 7 x64. No driver for it. Epson can't be bothered writing one, and Microsoft just doesn't care. -Al-
From: Frank on 22 Feb 2010 13:46
Al Smith wrote: > mike wrote: > >> It's Microsoft's responsibility to make their new OS compatible with the >> hardware I already have. I'm sure they have a lot of excuses. >> I don't want excuses. I want my (*(*& hardware to continue to work!!! >> It may not support new features, but it should do at least what it used >> to do. >> Period!!! >> Microsoft has let us down in that area. Sorry for any inconvenience, >> my A$$. > > > Tell me about it. I've got a perfectly good Epson Perfection Photo 1260 > flatbed scanner, and it won't run under Windows 7 x64. No driver for it. > Epson can't be bothered writing one, and Microsoft just doesn't care. > > -Al- Hummm...MS has nothing to do with Epson drivers. |