--------------------- The Two USB Devices: #1. An external enclosure(USB2) with an IDE NEC ND3500A(G) DVD burner inside. #2. A 9in1 Generic card reader with a 32MB MMCard inserted ------------- The Goings On: DOS loads fine and all seems to go well. Both devices are detected, NEC blahbalh with ID=0... 32MB blah with ID=2... When detecting USB, loading drivers and assigning the devices letters(ID=2 is E:\ and ID=0 is MSCDEX'd with other drives and given I:\) etc :) ...I'm returned to the command prompt... But, I can't do anything useful with the PS2 keyboard! :0 But :( the blinky cursor thingy blinks happily The DOS USB had done it's part but couldn't give keyboard control after aspiohci.sys loaded. What happened there?? Also, the keyboard can interrupt the loading and detecting of USB process and halt the system instantly! So close but-> DENIED! ------------------------ The Dumb Question Time: Must be a compatability and driver issue or??? I'm assuming the devices are OHCI, how can I tell? What if I had a USB keyboard and the DOS drivers too, would this still happen? --------------- The Specs ASUS P4S800 PIV 3.0-HT DDR PC3200 1024MB --------------- THE CONFIG.SYS: device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 devicehigh=aspiohci.sys /INT /ALL devicehigh=DI1000DD.SYS /H1 devicehigh=ASPICD.SYS /D:USBCD001 /ID=0 ------------- THE AUTOEXEC.BAT: MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /D:USBCD001 /L:%CDROM% /M:12

I guess there's more to your autoexec than that, but I don't think you need this: /D:USBCD001 TWICE And since you're using: /L:%CDROM% I guess you're using that goofy FINDCD which is part of a 98 startup disk. I just use: /L:R If the var %CDROM% is not set, your line will have: /D: Which can't be a good thing. ***** HTH M2

Sry bout the unedited post... Anyway, I forgot this part too [COMMON] device=himem.sys /testm:off files=40 buffers=40 dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 lastdrive=z

Thanx Mechanix /L:R didn't work at first, as I remember, but then I'll try again cause %CDROM% repeats in twice in autoexec.bat as I've found out. It is a win98 disk. -> FINDCD?? How about SMARTDRV.exe. thx

I would get rid of smartdrv, ramdrive and most of the rest until the problem is solved. M2

All to no avail. The /L:R does its job, I've disposed of all the garbo and tidied the necessities. I've trimmed and dosey-doed with this but fall short of the successes with USB in DOS functionality... It does the same ole freeze thing. It might be the controller program that has issues. Are there newer programs released? I've tried USBASPI.SYS and ASPIOHCI.SYS. Is DUSE worth the while?

Duno DUSE. Did you take the double /D:USBCD001 out? Try eliminating the autoexec. Just rename it. M2