USB dramas

I'm still having trouble getting the USB port on my partner's older laptop to work. Pentium II 250mz, was running Win '95, but I have upgraded it to '98.

I enabled the USB in the BIOS and the Dud's advice was "Once that is Enabled press the Escape key and then got 'PnP/PCI Configuration' and make sure 'Assign IRQ for USB' is enabled.
Press Escape again then got to Exit and save Changes, press enter and confirm with a 'Y' and the PC will carry on booting as normal. If that doesn't cure it, then the problem is something else altogether...

I could not find 'Assign IRQ for USB' to enable it. I rebooted and got message "This device is either not present, not working properly, or does not have all the drivers installed. code 10" I have reinstalled the driver and it still doesn't work.

I'm about to throw the thing out of the window!

 

Sorry, Dud, not the Dud.

 

If the machine originally had W95 on it, chances are the USB is a very early version, and may well have issues with the current USB support in Windows. I'd check with the manufacturer and see if there's a BIOS upgrade for the machine, or perhaps a USB driver update that might help.

 

The machine is a KTX which I've just found out is Korean for rubbish. The company went bust and they have no technical support. Windrivers.com might have an update, but I would have to pay US$29.95 for a six month membership just to find out that they don't have one after all. How easy is it to install a new USB port into a laptop?

 

If you have a spare PCMCIA card slot, they're available that way.

 

What a good idea. Why didn't I think of that? I think the computer will be granted a reprieve. Thanks