Wednesday, 6 March 2002

Time to Update your PC. If you have a VIA chipset motherboard it might be an idea to download the new USB 1.10 Driver Update. I've had a few hassles with my USB and hope that this patch will address the problems. Apparently a few people are saying this new driver has helped with large file transfers over the user's USB port. You can find the files here: http://download.viahardware.com/usbf_110.zip These are the fixes according to the readme file: Adds support for Windows XP. Fix the issue where USB devices will be reenumerated when system resumes from Standby mode. Source: viahardware.com   The lads over at Icronic.com have pointed out that there are two New Windows Critical Updates. Critical Update, February 10, 2002 This update addresses the "Stop 0xED on mounting volume on IDE drives" issue in Windows XP, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q315403 Download to resolve an issue affecting computers with IDE hard drives with caching enabled, that prevents the chkdsk.exe utility from running when your computer restarts. Critical Update, February 9, 2002 This update addresses the "Update Available for the Background Intelligence Transfer Service" issue in Windows XP, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q314862 Download now to resolve two issues in the Background Intelligence Transfer Service in Windows XP. In the first issue, if a user logs on during the "Pending Start" state while a file transfer job is pending, system services might not start for the first two minutes. The second issue affects Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows 98, and Windows 95. If Internet Options is set to Always dial my default connection before upgrading to Windows XP, the Background Intelligence Transfer Service remains in the "Connecting" state when you try to transfer a file. You can download these from Windows Update: http://www.windowsupdate.com/ 4:51:37 PM