Have an old generic Win98SE (I’ve verified it’s SE) system that I’m trying to use the USB ports on the back. There are two. I plugged in an 8gig thumb drive and it’s light came on for about 2 seconds then extinguished. This tells me that there’s USB power at the port. However – No system reaction, no drive in explorer. Found a supposed generic USB driver (nusb33.exe (sp?) and loaded it up. Put in the stick and still nothing. I rebooted and nothing. Rebooted again with the stick in the USB slot, still nothing. I also tried connecting a printer to both ports, no reaction.
I should be seeing something akin to what I’m used to seeing with XP – Found New Hardware, Windows is searching.loading software to use with your new hardware, Your hardware is ready to use… etc. But zero. Checked device mgr and there are no yellow triangles and under USB ports I see the root hub and the controller listed and reported as working fine.
I’d like some help figuring out how to use the USB ports on this computer. Can anyone shoot me some hints? Could it be that the 8gig thumb drive is just too big for SE to recognize?