NTL and Windows XP Service Pack 2

[macroy spencer]

After downloading Microsoft XP Service Pack 2 I have found that I have lost my USB light on the broadband cable modem. This occurred with SP1 as well. In order to reconnect I have had to System Restore thus losing the benefits of these upgrades. I could not reinstall broadband with CD as the "malfunctioning adapter" message came up and the adapter would not be permitted to be uninstalled. I had a great deal of help from the NTL techies but to no avail. What's to be done? I would be grateful for any advice as I would like the benefits of these upgrades.
Roy

[Scrubbs]

I can't answer your question but i would be interested in the answer have you done a search?

cue nice techy peeps

[Richard M]

Why do you need the light?
If the net works I'd just leave it TBH.

[macroy spencer]

Thanks for the reply. Re the light: There was no internet connection, the USB port wasn't recognised. Microsoft did not have an answer to the specific NTL modem issue.

[Richard M]

Hmm strange.
You could try going to ethernet instead.

[Chris W]

Hmm... what chipset do you have? Is it a Via 3038 or SIS 7001?

If you copy the drivers folder, then install sp 2, then write over the "new" folder with the older copy... does it then work?

[Caspar]

I'd like to reiterate Richard M's advice and go Ethernet, and scrub using USB...USB is a mighty PITA and uses far too much system resources, like wifes and girlfriends

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Caspar

... and uses far too much system resources, like wifes and girlfriends

and Kids ...

A also would advise you to switch to ethernet.

[Caspar]

and boyfriends, and *friends in general sometimes

[Chris W]

I would also suggest ethernet, but i would be interested to know what chipset it is, because it is not the first time that i have heard this problem, and i am trying to get to the bottom of what is causing it...

little off topic here but just how much more resources would usb use over ethernet ?

[Flubflow]

Originally Posted by peacedude2k4

little off topic here but just how much more resources would usb use over ethernet ?

The effect it has obviously varies depending on how powerful your PC is.
If you are running a really powerful network game then you'd want a stable connection and the best speed you can get from you CPU but a USB-cablemodem connection is never going to be as good as a proper ethernet network card for that. On USB, the game or the connection is going to glitch when CPU demand is heavy.
As an extreme example, I remember when I was on dial-up and I had a USB modem on a PII-500 and every time I ran something that was very CPU intensive then the connection would stall and the modem would disconnect (simply loading Apple Quicktime always did this for example). The 56k USB modem was worse than the previous 33k comm port modem I previously had and I couldn't surf and listen to MP3's or other media files from disk at the same time without glitches.

[macroy spencer]

Hi all,
Many thanks for your kind assistance with my query. I took monkeybreath's advice re the drivers but instead of loading the copied windows driver file I reloaded the mainboard drivers including the USB ones - bingo. The board is an MSI K7N2 Delta 128 bit NVIDIA nForce2 chipset. Very easy for an amateur like me to update.
Roy

[macroy spencer]

Further to my last: I should have also mentioned that the cable modem 351000 driver on the NTL setup disk also needs to go on (straightforward as the request comes up on screen- just pop in the appropriate disk).
Roy

[swoop101]

Originally Posted by macroy spencer

Hi all,
Many thanks for your kind assistance with my query. I took monkeybreath's advice re the drivers but instead of loading the copied windows driver file I reloaded the mainboard drivers including the USB ones - bingo. The board is an MSI K7N2 Delta 128 bit NVIDIA nForce2 chipset. Very easy for an amateur like me to update.
Roy

You have on-board ethernet with that mobo, I would switch to that as the others have said.