usb dosn't work

[lee_keven]

i have a pcChips pentium mother board with a 200mmx processor. i recently purchased a usb scanner and keyboard but they will not work.yes the bios setting is on and i have updated the driver for the tx chipset from intel. win98 loads the standard usb drivers
but the devices do not work and are not recognized. i have e-mailed pcchips a few times but since this motherboard is a couple of years old they don't seem interested in supporting it as i have not received a reply
obviosly i will not buy any of their products again.

[Axel]

Have you looked on the BIOS manufacturer home page to see if you might need a BIOS update?

Award has several BIOS bugs which they have released updates for that corrected USB issues.

[lee_keven]

thank you axel but the bios is ami and since the mainboard is not u.s. manufactured they say go to pcchips for the bios update. it's sort of like a dog chasing it's tail.

[deep_sky]

i hear your pain lee keven...i too have a pc-chips mobo that is nothing but a pain in the ***. I have looked for a new bios( mine says its from 95) but i cannot find one and when I get to pcchip's page, its in poorly written english that says that I can get it but they dont have it. What a waste of time. I would advise, if you can, get another motherboard. I myself cannot do this as I have just bought the darn thing, but as soon as I can, that motherboard is out of there and a new and fully FUNCTIONAL board is in. I posted a thread about this in the tech support forum and someone who also has a pc-chips mobo said that although the bios says its old it really isnt. you may want to check it out.

also my board came with a set of drivers since it is one of those fully integrated boards. the standard 98 drivers did not work
so i installed the ones on the cd....is yours like this too?


[This message has been edited by deep_sky (edited 10-22-1999).]