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blackjackel

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"Device driver cannot start (10)" have to disable re-enable EVERY boot!

I have windows 7 and my Intel N10/ICH7 Family USB Universal Host Controller and the USB2 Enhanced host controllers ALWAYS ALWAYS don't work on every boot, i go to them and it says "This device cannot start. (Code 10)

Windows did not start a related device driver. To learn more, click the Driver tab and then click Driver Details."

It works when i disable and re-enable, but I have do this every single boot and it gets annoying.
 
That reminds me of a bug I saw before with Windows 2000, when using a USB mouse, IIRC. Windows 2000 would keep refusing to use the driver everytime I cold boot the PC and with every cold boot, I had to go to Device Manager and click "Uninstall" for the mouse and reboot then it would be fine until the PC was shut down. Otherwise, no mouse! (IIRC)
 
With usb issues I'd update your chipset drivers and check for a newer bios
 
Ok, I've just updated to the latest chipset drivers, and every other driver in my system is now up to date, I used a driver update utility to make sure everything is up to date.

I also updated my bios to the latest bios, they dropped support for it back in mid 09 but I even used a modded bios that has added updated bios instructions that have since come out sice support was dropped.

I'm still getting this extremely annoying issue.
 
Still have the problem, nothing on google seems to help.

I thought of an idea, if i could just write a script or find a program that disables and re-enables hardware, I could set it to run say 1 minute after boot and that should solve my problem. anyone know of such software? Perhaps a batch file command? Script? something?
 
Have you already tried running the Hardware and Devices troubleshooting tool in Win7, and / or disconnecting each USB device one at a time while powered off, then re-checking for the Code 10 error in Device Manager?
 
Have you already tried running the Hardware and Devices troubleshooting tool in Win7, and / or disconnecting each USB device one at a time while powered off, then re-checking for the Code 10 error in Device Manager?

Just tried your suggestions, both failed...

In the end i ended up with absolutely no USB in my system (I unplugged EVERTHING), and I'm still at square one. I just went on a frenzy of uninstalling, reinstalling, and rebooting, and that didn't help either.
 
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looks like something isnt loading in the right order...
find out what driver your usb host controller is dependant on and change it to load after that... this tool might help, but i never used it.
your event viewer might tell you what driver it's looking for
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/serviwin.html

I'll throw in this MS article if you feel like messing with your registry

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/115486
 
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looks like something isnt loading in the right order...
find out what driver your usb host controller is dependant on and change it to load after that... this tool might help, but i never used it.
your event viewer might tell you what driver it's looking for
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/serviwin.html

I'll throw in this MS article if you feel like messing with your registry

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/115486

oh my god! it was SO obvious! I feel like an amateur for not thinking about it but all i had to do was check the event viewer!

I was getting tons of errors from something called libusb, once I uninstalled that my USB is working fine now! Thanks so much!
 
looks like something isnt loading in the right order...
find out what driver your usb host controller is dependant on and change it to load after that... this tool might help, but i never used it.
your event viewer might tell you what driver it's looking for
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/serviwin.html

I'll throw in this MS article if you feel like messing with your registry

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/115486

It helps my problem solved. That link is very helpful Thanks. My problem is to change device driver startup type
 
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