On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:16:42 -0700, "DaffyDŽ" put
finger to keyboard and composed:
My son was just given a Mp3 player which needs to have a Windows 98 USB
driver installed. The problem is that Windows doesn't detect the driver on
the install CD when running the Add Hardware wizard.
What happens is that the driver setup program is installed, Windows builds a
new driver information database, detects that it has found the Sunplus
Multidisk disk and will search for a driver for it, but doesn't find one.
I've tried the "Search for the best driver for your device" option, the
"Display a list of all drivers" option, "Have Disk" and that all didn't
work. Craig doesn't have a website so there are no FAQs. The player won't
work with Windows if the driver isn't installed.
I guess to generalize the question, how does one install a USB driver from a
CD when Windows won't detect it?
Use either of the following programs to detect your MP3 player:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB...VCView.x86.exe
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB_IDs/usbview.exe
Look for vendor IDs and product IDs in the output. For example, here
is what I see for an MP3/MP4 player:
idVendor: 0x10D6 = Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
idProduct: 0x1101
iProduct: 0x01
English (United States) "USB 2.0(HS) Flash Disk "
In the above case I would search the CD for INF files containing the
text strings "10D6" and "1101".
Otherwise I have found that the Maximus Decim NUSB driver set will
probably work with your hardware. The MP3 player will show up as a
disc drive in Explorer and you will be able to write and read it just
like any other disc.
http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43605
- Franc Zabkar
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