How can I get my usb drivers working?

theog · 05 Jun 2011

jasv2 said:

@theog those cards won't work. The ridges have 2 notches at the bottom. I need one with only one notch because my available slot only has one notch. Britton's diagram uptop shows it nicely.

Below is a picture of a PCI Net Card with 2 notches, which will still fit a PCI slot.

How can I get my usb drivers working?-net-card-1.png

Britton30 · 05 Jun 2011

Thanks Theog! I've not used a PCI card for awhile and didn't realize they have two slots. I just looked at my old ones and they DO have the two slots as in your illustration. A mind is a terrible thing to lose

theog · 05 Jun 2011

Britton30 said:

Thanks Theog! I've not used a PCI card for awhile and didn't realize they have two slots. I just looked at my old ones and they DO have the two slots as in your illustration. A mind is a terrible thing to lose

Not all have two notches

jasv2 · 05 Jun 2011

I've become unfamiliar with pci cards too. I guess we can forget things when everything is going well. I ordered a pci express serial card and it should arrive day after tomorrow. I hope it gets me in so I can see what the real problem is. Until then, I'm going to play around with a copy of Hiren's Boot Disc.

Britton30 · 05 Jun 2011

2 Days Ago

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As Richard has already posted, 80070005 means Access Denied but, the issue was caused when iTunes was uninstalled. As far as I know, Dell installs the usb drivers using an .inf file. I've not used an .inf to install drivers during the System Recovery add drivers phase.
What I do know is that it should be present in Windows\inf\usb.inf
And, there is also the usbport.inf, at the same location.
IIRC, they both need to be installed.

Here's reply I got to your issue.

jasv2 · 08 Jun 2011

Thanks Britton, I have someone with the exact same pc sending me those inf files. I'll let you know how it goes.

jasv2 · 08 Jun 2011

It was looking very hopeful but unfortunately it quickly ends in an error saying the drivers could not be installed. I tried installing the files in both orders but no luck.

brianzion · 08 Jun 2011

hi there:)
have you tried this >>>

switch pc off
un-plug from wall charger
pull mains cable out from pc
press and hold the power button on pc for 5-10 seconds
re plug cable and power up pc

what this does is resets the motherboard the other way is to take the battery out on the motherboard leave out for a few minutes then put back in and switch on.

jasv2 · 08 Jun 2011

yep, I tried that day one

brianzion · 08 Jun 2011

in your first post you state "The Dell driver site for my system does not distribute usb drivers and I can not seem to find any drivers that are installable from the system recovery add drivers utility. It seems to require a certain type of install or driver file"
can you not use the service tag for your pc on the dell site to get updates/drivers for your machine? i had problems with my dell running xp and i punched my service tag in and away i went downloading and installing the drivers i needed.