I’m passing this along for a friend who isn’t a driver guy, so all Ihave to
go on at the moment is the second-hand tail that follows. If anyone has a
suggestion on how the guy can *force* the Belkin driver to install for the
Belkin adapter (rather than XP deciding it likes its own non-working driver
better) I’d appreciate it.
The guy has tried updating the driver and physically pointing at the Belkin
driver. Doesn’t work.
What I don’t know is if Belkin signed the driver for this device. Quite
possibly not, and since it is now an old device they likely have no way to
make signed drivers for it if it isn’t signed now.
We have a customer who is seeing Windows XP, when it gets pointed to the
Belkin
driver for the F5U-115 adapter, first accept the Belkin driver and then
immediately override it with the default XP ‘USB Mass Storage’ device
driver.
We know this happens irreparably with many interfaces including the
Adaptec
USB2XChange (but we are trying to get to the bottom of that since this
adapter
might actually be quite fast once it’s working) but the F5U-115 has
traditionally been extremely easy to install and we have not really seen
this
happen before with this unit.The only gotcha is that this is a Dell computer which we did not recommend
and
So … any specific ideas on how to force XP to accept the Belkin
driver
instead of substuting what it thinks is better? I referred the customer
to
Belkin for now but am afraid Belkin will just tell him the unit is
discontinued
(which it is) and that support is no longer provided…
> You MIGHT try using the device manager to update the device driver and
> specifically select the Belkin version. That might override the
selection.What I described is what happens when he tries that technique!