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Vista Ultimate 64 Bit and Corsair Voyager2 GB


Guenniko

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Hello,

 

My system:

 

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum 1.0

-Bios 1.D

-Nvidia platformdriver 15.00

2 x 1GB Corsair Dominator (2T)

2 x samsung 200GB SATAII

1 x samsung 250GB SATAII

HIS Enmic X1800XL 256 GB

-Ati Driver 7.4

 

external usb hard drive 400GB

 

Os:

Vista Ultimate 64 Bit is up to date

 

Kind regards

 

Guenniko

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Looking at their site it looks as thou they have not released drivers for the O.S. you have and most MB's modify the reference design with the CODEC for Audio and PHY that may be why you are having this issue. Have you contacted their tech support and asked them if they have seen this problem? The fact it works with WinXP and 2000 suggest a controller driver issue with Vista.
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I have recently upgraded to 32Bit Vista.My Voyager will not work with it but does under XP. I tried to install the driver manually as you suggested above but it did not work. What is the name of the required driver and can I find it elsewhere?

 

Martin

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Hi, this is my first post. There is increasing evidence that the USB driver stack built into Windows Vista is having problems supporting Corsair Flash Voyager GT drives. I have a pair of Flash Voyager GT 8GB drives, which work great with several different motherboards running Windows XP, but when I switch to Windows Vista, the first time the drive is plugged in, the Plug-&-Play fails with "Driver for this device cannot be installed" error message. A second plug-in usually gets the PnP to complete, but then I frequently get "This drive needs to be formatted" message, even though the drive clearly has a valid NTFS file system (created under WinXP). Cancelling the formatting dialog usually results in normal operation, but not all the time.

 

Based on the observations that the problems with Flash Voyager GT occur only with Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit), but not with Windows XP, I would assign the Vista USB driver stack (usbstor.sys, etc.) as the prime suspect.

 

I happen to know that Microsoft is preparing a USB driver "rollup" package for Vista, aimed at resolving various issues related to USB devices. I hope to be able to do some testing with this USB "rollup" package soon, as I am eager to know whether it can provide any relief to the above problems. I will post a report once I have definitive results.

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We have not seen the error in our testing but many have reported the problems and if you point Windows manually to the //windows/system32/drives and it will normally install the driver, but you need to be a Administrator on the system when you install the hardware.
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I have done exactly as you have instructed while logged in as an administrator but it does not work for me. I have other USB troubles since upgrading to Vista and believe Mr Scan80269 is correct. I hope MS sort it soon.

 

Martin

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Please call our Tech support at 800-205-7657 510-657-8747 and we will try to help you solve the problem, and our hours are from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM Pacific Time Monday threw Friday excluding holidays!
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