I just bought a new motherboard Asus A7V333 which has four USB ports built into it plus I have an additional two on a card. My OS is Win 98 2nd ed, my CPU is a 1GHz Atholon with 256MB of DDR. I’m having issues with the OS being able to recognize my USB ports; any of them. I’ve gone into the BIOS and have changed the setting to “Enable” and have also gone into “Add new hardware” and walked through the process there – nothing. I’ve also re-installed Win 98 2nd ed w/o f disking but rather as an overlay to see if that would help – nothing. When I go into Devise Manager I still don’t see any USB ports there. I changed out my old motherboard and installed the new one I didn’t F disk the hard drive because my old mobo was an Asus 266. Any additional advice? Help!

ah yes had the same problem with a VIA chipset motherboard in the past. your chipset is http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/KT333.jsp and guess what you need to do next.4 in 1 drivers need to be installed http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2

see if you had xp windows those 4to1 drivers would come along with that windows installation and your usb ports would work just fine now.windows 98 doesnt have them..

Thanks David. I'll try the solution out and let you know.

David, it didn't work. I went through the process of installing the 4in1 drivers but I have no idea where they're being installed. I went back and tried to install the hardware again but I don't think that's the solution since the 4 of the USB ports aren't cards but actually part of the mobo. I opened the case to validate that the jumpers are configured correctly of which they were.