miguels1975

Turns out that my IPOD has to be plugged into the power source while it's being reset to the factory settings in order to power up the ipod. The WINXP couldn't understand what the Ipod was doing so it wouldn't allow the 2.0 USB to work properly. The Apple support guy said they are up[censored] this information on their website soon. I'm happy again Good luck with your Rio! P.S. I also updated the intel utility application. that seemed to help out a bit with all the drives.

I am the owner of a GA-8IEXP 1.2 motherboard running an Intel 4, 2.0 mhz processor. I have 512mb ram. I have 3 hard drives 1 dvdrw and 1 dvd rom connected to 3 of the 4 IDE slots. 3 months ago I had 1 hard drive and 1 dvd rom and 1 cd-r drive. My USB 2.0 Ipod plugged in with no problems. I read the posting about "not enough power" which could be a consideration. I did notice a change with my logitech wireless usb mouse, when I used the mouse port dongle and plugged it into the regular mouse port. The computer didn't freeze up. I also downloaded the the motherboard F9 bios onto floppy and replaced the bios (f9) just to make sure. that helped where now my ipod doesn't freeze the system. Instead I get a message that says something to the effect of "usb has malfunctioned while installation please reinstall device." I can't get my ipod to show up but there is some wierdness with the USB. It seems very picky. Thanks for everyone's input!