Bergeyk

Tried al of the above and unfortunatly no luck. Tried my luck with the support on the gigabyte site... however the saying "ashtray on a motobike" indicates the usefullness there.

Alas still no joy. The other machine on the network also has a gigabyte MB and does not have the problems. I have also tried to remove all USB devices from the machine but again...... Asking gigabyte did not get any response and the manufacturer of the key did offer some suggestions (which did not help. As I said it is not the key that is faulty but the combination of the MB and the USB 2 drivers from Microsoft. If I rebuild the machine and not update the drivers the key works fine. But as soon as I aske for the hardware to find the "best" driver and the Controller is updated to "Intel® 82801DB/DBM USB 2.0 Enhanced Host COntroller -24D" that it is t.

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunatly this does not seem to be the problem. I have HDD as C: CD-Rom as D: DVD burner as E: Networked throug a router with cable modem.

Hope someone can shed some light on this problem. I have updated the USB drivers to latest available and updated the Bios for the Mb to f9. My problem is that whenever I plug in a USB key (256 MB USB 2.0)the computer freezes completely. It does not matter which USB ports I try, front rear or the ones on the board itself. When I use a 1.1 key no problems and none of the other USB peripherals (Printer, Mouse, Scanner, Digital Camera) cause any issue. I have tried three different keys and have tried these also on other machines. No problems were encountered except on my machine. Mb: GA-8IEXP OS: XP-Home CPU: 2.26MHz RAM: 756 Mb