No native driver support Vista home premium

[mdeppie]

Hello,
I have a strange problem with my Asus F3JP notebook and Vista Home premium. There is no native driver support I guess. If I put in a memory stick for example Vista see the new hardware and finds the right device but cannot install a driver at all and asks for the manufacturer disc. And I have the same problem now with my video camera I want to connect via fire wire. On an other PC with Vista everything is working fine and my camera is on the compatibility list from Sony and the memory stick is also on the list.
I have search the internet for a solution for about 6 weeks but cannot find anything about this, so if anyone have a suggestion I will be very happy if it Works .

[rgharper]

Did you check with Asus for any drivers or updates your notebook needs? If the drivers for the USB hub or flash memory card reader are incorrect or missing you'll have these kinds of problems.

[mdeppie]

The drivers are up to date and on the forum van Asus I didn´t find any user with the same problems.
One additional think: If i want to use my memory stick, then i put it in the USB port before starting the notebook. The the bios finds the memory stick and it works. Vista still comes with the message to put in the driver CD. If I quit this message box the drive for USB stick in Explorer is gone. If I do nothing then I can do everythink with the stick. But this is not working for my video camera via firewire.

[CCT]

While you await advice from one of the techs here, some reading:

http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid68_gci1255731,00.html

[mdeppie]

Thanks for the link but i don't read any news for me.
At this moment I am concentrate to the Sony videocamera problem. On mij PC where everything is working fine he use the msdv.sys as driver and the msdv.inf to install the driver. The msdv.inf is on my notebook too but under the sony chapter i cannot see the compatible ID for my camera (Ao2D).
If I search for this on internet I only can find drivers for Win 98SE.
I think the easiest way is to install Vista again (running still on oem install from Asus with all driver updates) but i am a technican and for this i want to figure uit what the problem is......:mad:

[futuretech]

http://teknobabble.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/vista-driver-problems-installing-a-usb-media-reader-a-solution/

This article might point to a possible solution. The very bottom of the article shows one users solution to the USB not being found.

[mdeppie]

:thumbs: Year futuretech, you'r great :thumbs:

The article fixed all my problems.
So the sollution is:
If Vista normaly have a driver build in and cannot find it and ask for a driver disk point to:
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository
and then Vista can find the driver.
Works with my USB memory stick and my DV camera via Firewire.
....but now still I have the question why Vista is not looking at this folder for itself? Why I have to point to the folder? (yes I really want to understand Vista.....:D )