Greetings all. I'm stumped and I'm normally quite good at this.
I recently purchased a USB External HD that takes advantage of that wonderful new USB 2.0 and all it's glorious speed.
Of course my computer didn't have any USB 2.0 capabilities so I bought a USB 2.0 PCI adapter.
The adapter installs just fine, drivers load just fine and the adapter's USB ports work fine with USB 1.1 devices. As soon as I try and turn on that 2.0 HD........ KABOOM!
I get the wonderful BSOD with this message.
"Plug N' Pray has detected an error most likely caused by a faulty driver. Your system has been shutdown to prevent damage."
At first I figured the new external USB HD was foobared somehow but I had a thought and plugged into one of my orignal 1.1 USB ports. The HD works just fine that way.... slower than it should but that's normal considering it's not on a USB 2.0 port.
Other things I have tried to fix this....
Made for certain that the correct driver for this NEC PCI USB 2.0 adapter is the correct one. It is. That I have checked re-checked and checked again.
I started thinking that it might be an IRQ type conflict so I started shuffling PCI cards in my system around to see if I could fix it that way but that didn't make any change in behavior.
Here are my computer Specs
Dell Dimension 8100
1.3ghz p4
640mb of RDAM
Nvidia GeForce 2 w/ 32mb RAM (in AGP slot)
3Com NIC 10/100 (in PCI #1)
Sound Blaster Live! (in PCI #2)
NEC USB 2.0 PCI adapter (in #3,4, or 5 doesn't matter, I've even tried it in 1 and 2 and every other combination you can think of)
40 gig WD HD
Windows XP Pro fully updated with SP1 and all other updates.
So, basically it works, unless I want to plug it into the 2.0 adapter. That ain't right at all. Ideas? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
I recently purchased a USB External HD that takes advantage of that wonderful new USB 2.0 and all it's glorious speed.
Of course my computer didn't have any USB 2.0 capabilities so I bought a USB 2.0 PCI adapter.
The adapter installs just fine, drivers load just fine and the adapter's USB ports work fine with USB 1.1 devices. As soon as I try and turn on that 2.0 HD........ KABOOM!
I get the wonderful BSOD with this message.
"Plug N' Pray has detected an error most likely caused by a faulty driver. Your system has been shutdown to prevent damage."
At first I figured the new external USB HD was foobared somehow but I had a thought and plugged into one of my orignal 1.1 USB ports. The HD works just fine that way.... slower than it should but that's normal considering it's not on a USB 2.0 port.
Other things I have tried to fix this....
Made for certain that the correct driver for this NEC PCI USB 2.0 adapter is the correct one. It is. That I have checked re-checked and checked again.
I started thinking that it might be an IRQ type conflict so I started shuffling PCI cards in my system around to see if I could fix it that way but that didn't make any change in behavior.
Here are my computer Specs
Dell Dimension 8100
1.3ghz p4
640mb of RDAM
Nvidia GeForce 2 w/ 32mb RAM (in AGP slot)
3Com NIC 10/100 (in PCI #1)
Sound Blaster Live! (in PCI #2)
NEC USB 2.0 PCI adapter (in #3,4, or 5 doesn't matter, I've even tried it in 1 and 2 and every other combination you can think of)
40 gig WD HD
Windows XP Pro fully updated with SP1 and all other updates.
So, basically it works, unless I want to plug it into the 2.0 adapter. That ain't right at all. Ideas? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?