Im having USB problems also, I love the 8k5a2+ I bought, nearly got everything how I want it, except the usb. Ive run the intel USBready utility and it says it cannot determine hardware config and the driver is not operating correctly, I always liked USB before now because it was so easy. Ive installed the 4in 1's and usb drivers off the cd I got with the board, fresh install of windows, latest bios and played with bios a bit, turned usb 2.0 on and off and enabled/disabled all other USB settings but nothing has worked so far. None of my usb devices are detected. Device manager has 4 listings of USB controller under the USB controller heading and 1 has a exclamation mark in it and the properties of this one say the drivers arent installed, Ive tried updating driver for the device but no matter where I point to windows says it cant find a driver, anyone know the solution here???
My thoughts on the board--- its great, clocked my xp1800 to 1750mhz with a pretty standard cooler, the onboard sound is not bad except I get hard drive interference even after installing the latency patch, heres a tip, the temp and voltage monitoring software that came with the board didnt work nor did MBM but epox has a working util on their website, I laughed at the internet bios update thingy and even had a go, it worked, something to tell my friends