XP needs to re-install a device driver each time I change the USB port?

[space-time]

I have a special CCD camera that I installed and worked fine at work. The other day I wanted to use it again and it would not work. I got a message with new device detected, but I cancelled the lame XP attempt to locate the drivers since I knew the camera worked fine before.

I was wrong. It turns out each time I connect the camera to another USB port, I have to re-load the driver. So I have to log out, log back in as Administrator (and thanks God I have a friend in the IT dept and he enabled a local admin account for me, a no-no otherwise) and the reload the damn driver, all because first time I have the camera hooked up to a USB port on the monitor and this time I wanted to move the laptop to another location and I didn't want to drag the external monitor along.

What a mess. I never saw a device before where you had to reinstall the driver if you changed the USB port. Otherwise the camera is awesome, high resolution, 60 fps, lost of controls.

[Sam3]

That is correct, each USB port is considered another separate instance and needs to have drivers installed. Printers are the same.

[Mr645]

Yup, nothing as fun as a PC laptop with 6 USB ports

[silvarios]

I've run Linux on the same computers that have originally come with Windows and I've never run into this nonsense. My Macs have never done this either. What limitation is causing this issue in Windows? Serious question.


Nathan

[gabester]

silvarios wrote:
What limitation is causing this issue...

Unseriously, the question answers itself!

silvarios wrote:
in Windows?

[silvarios]

gabester wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
What limitation is causing this issue...

Unseriously, the question answers itself!

silvarios wrote:
in Windows?

Well, yes. Of course, Windows is in fact the answer. However, anyone have a deeper, say, more technical answer?


Nathan

[Racer X]

I have 4 identical thumb drives. each has a different driver, as each has a different serial number. stupidest shIt I have seen in a LONG time.

[silvarios]

Racer X wrote:
I have 4 identical thumb drives. each has a different driver, as each has a different serial number. stupidest shIt I have seen in a LONG time.

Are you using XP? Vista? Does this nonsense still appear in Vista? I have very few clients on Vista yet. I really need to brush up on Vista, but I loathe having to support Windows.



Nathan

[Forrest]

This is a Windows XP issue. Suggest connecting the camera to each USB port on your computer and installing the drivers for each one.

[space-time]

and I though it was the camera software, which is otherwise pretty good. I couldn't imagine this nonsense is an XP problem, and it happens with pretty much every device as far as I understand from this thread.