ALI M5271 PCI card won't install hangs XP

Purchased a combo card 4 usb 2.0 and 2 firewire(ALI(M5271) -- locks up computer after inital logon to XP , sp1 installed and all latest winupdates, have tried removing USB currently on system, rebooting, installing the latest updated driver from aliECHI_152, and then rebootiing, and putting card in before it comes up, still locks up right as it says it's found new hardware in both cases.

Can reboot, remove card all comes up and runs fine, old USB drivers located and setup- running a ibm- comp- XP pro, amd 1600 with 1m ram (2 512M), two hard drive, CDRW, DVDRW, scsi aha-2940 pci (scanner), video is Rage ATI 128 pro, have one more PCI slot that 56k modem was in (removed), so have two PCI slots, have tried moving cards around between reboots too.

Suggestions?

Welcome to windrivers jethoma. Give this Integrated Driver a try - it worked for someone with a similar problem a month or two ago. BTW, the 152 EHCI driver is not the latest - they are up to 159. If the Integrated Driver doesn't work, you could try that. You could also try installing the driver with the card removed.

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Welcome to windrivers jethoma. Give this Integrated Driver a try - it worked for someone with a similar problem a month or two ago. BTW, the 152 EHCI driver is not the latest - they are up to 159. If the Integrated Driver doesn't work, you could try that. You could also try installing the driver with the card removed.

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Hi,
Did you solve the problem ??
I have the same exact problem too; PC frozen/hang after detected ALi USB host controller . Tried the new driver also unsolved. I had formatted my two PCs , but still sick!!! . The installation of Win XP stops if the ALi card in there, but continues once removed. I contacted ALi.tw , un-solved and then no reply , sick company!! .
Has anyone out there succesfully installed ALi M5271 , please help .
I'm in the process of returning the item got the RMA number from seller today , lost money buying this superb sick item.

please , plzzzzz email me if at [email protected] , if you know the solution.


Jazz

Welcome to WD jazz. Looks like you've tried everything you should have, geesh, even a format? Well, sometimes cards are just DOA. Lousy quality control and all that. So, take advantage of the RMA. Are they sending an exact replacement, or your money back?

Just registered...

As I mentioned already in the other Ali theread, I somehow resolved the same problem exactly.
I used Antec 550W TrueControl PSU to increase +5V rail up to +5.15V.

All the problems went away. Be aware, it's not a drivers' problem - same crash I had with Linux. During PCI devices' enumeration system (WIn & Lin) locked.

Found this thread in Google. Just registered...

I had the same problem as Jethoma. Bought a 3 port firewire/5 port USB card (Ali M5271) from Ebay. Installed it in the slot, started Windows XP (SP-1) and card was recognized and drivers installed. But when I checked in the device manager, nothing was working. Insterted the driver CD that came with the card and halfway through the driver installation, they system crashed and rebooted. Tried it again with the same outcome.

My solution, based on comments above was to remove the card in the device manager (remove every USB/1394 device that isn't working). Then run the Integrated207.exe driver (I got mine directly from www.ali.com.tw). Then reboot. New drivers installed automatically, and everything appears to work.

Welcome to Windrivers iflier

Glad you found a solution... let's hope that it works for others.

Anyone got a resolution to this??
I have this card, got it off ebay also.

If I have it plugged into a PCI slot in my computer, it locks the system.
Farthest it will get is to finding new hardware, pops up the bubble saying Found ALi... then it freezes whole system.

Only way I can get the system to boot with this card in, is to go into the BIOS and change all the IRQ's off of PCI/PNP to ISA.. which doesn't help me... cuz then nothing can use the IRQ's.

I can't even boot from a win2k or winxp setup cd with this card in the slot.

Welcome to windrivers vital. You've tried safe mode?

Which os are you running? All service packs and updates installed?

vital which slot did you put it in?

I'm running WinXP Pro with all updates installed.
I've tried it in all 4 PCI slots.

Cannot get into Safe Mode with the card plugged in. (Unless I disable all the PCI IRQ's)

If the card does not allow the machine to boot, then the card is faulty or there is a major incompatibility between the card and the motherboard. Return the card.

Probably pretty much S.O.L. there, bought it off ebay, can't imagine he's gonna gimme my money back....

Try it in another machine, if it does the same, it's faulty. Alot of traders on ebay are very good about returns.... just make sure it is definitely faulty first.

Man, my card doesnt hang up XP... in fact, XP doesnt even detect it! Looks like RMA is around the corner. The Firewire port DOES have power tho... i could charge my iPod with it

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Found this thread in Google. Just registered...

I had the same problem as Jethoma. Bought a 3 port firewire/5 port USB card (Ali M5271) from Ebay. Installed it in the slot, started Windows XP (SP-1) and card was recognized and drivers installed. But when I checked in the device manager, nothing was working. Insterted the driver CD that came with the card and halfway through the driver installation, they system crashed and rebooted. Tried it again with the same outcome.

My solution, based on comments above was to remove the card in the device manager (remove every USB/1394 device that isn't working). Then run the Integrated207.exe driver (I got mine directly from www.ali.com.tw). Then reboot. New drivers installed automatically, and everything appears to work.

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GENIUS! Alright, i got a replacement Ali card after i RMA'd the retailer. The first thing i did was run Integrated207.exe. Then, i opened my case, installed the card, and booted up. XP started installing the drivers, and BAM it works! Great advice, lflier!

Btw, running XP Pro w/ SP2

I have the very same card, got it a while back and only used it on a new install today, and i get totally different results.

I have an MSI NEO2 mobo, P4 2.4, win xp pro, SP1 only, not sp2
The minute i put the card in my mobo, it booted up!
I didnt try one of the ports but i imagine its working but device mgr looks ok, with one except that existed before i installed this card, that is, there is a yellow exclamation mentioning "SM bus controller", but it has nothing to do with this card, at least i dont think it does.

Anyway, each time i turn my puter off, it turns off and then boots up again in an endless cycle. The only thing i can do to turn it off is to either remove this card or use the off switch on the power supply itself.
As soon as i turn the switch on the power supply back on, my system boots up.
I have tried moving the card to all of the pci slots and same thing happens.
I did have the driver cdrom in my cdrom when i first installed the card, so i dont know if win xp pro installed its own drivers or used the cdrom i have.
Any help would be appreciated. I have taken the card out and put in another card with only firewire on it and its fine. This mobo comes with 6 usb2 connectors of its own, but i use a lot of usb stuff and would like to see if i can tame this card.
I tried downloading the drivers but at the ALI site I dont seem to be able to get these files now. I did download the integrated 207 from driverguide.
I havent tried installing yet but there is still the prob that soon as i put the pci card in my system boots up. I havent located a bios setting that would affect this. My bios isnt set to turn on computer with keyboard or mouse.

thanks

Welcome to windrivers nork. The smbus controller problem sounds like you don't have the chipset drivers installed. They are available here: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...6&DwnldID=7948 With any luck, this should solve the reboot issue as well.

Thanks very much for the answer!
I was pretty sure that i did that, but who knows, maybe not.
I dont have the driver cd for this mobo but i thought i got what i needed from MSI website.
So i will install the inf files and report back.
I cant remember if you mentioned what exactly "SM bus controller" was?
I can only guess at "smartmedia bus controller", and i didnt worry about it as i dont have a smartmedia connector on this mobo. I was thinking about trying a win xp pro repair, thinking maybe it was missed at the time and might be in the win xp pro cd, or even in sp1, but i have since installed sp1, but not sp2 yet.



Thanks again.

SM Bus = System Management Bus

Thanks Hudson!

If i did have an inf file installed, i dont recall, but i did install this new one and it took the yellow mark away so that is all ok now, thanks to you!

The other prob still exists. I installed the inf file and then rebooted fully.
I turned puter off and put the combo usbo2 & firewire pci card in and the system booted up again.

Imho, and it should be humble at this point, lol, i think its in the bios somewhere. I think i now have all i need installed to make this mobo and system work properly. That being the case, i think its either a bad card or a bios issue, i am leaning toward the latter, what do you think?

Thanks again for the help! You know, i should know better by now, thats what happens when I dont use my head and think a bit. But, this is how we get better at this, learning from mistakes. I hope i havent intruded too much on the original thread, but i figured its pretty old and kinda dead so it wouldnt matter much if i posted here, hope thats ok?

I just revisited the MSI website to see if i missed the intel inf file and its not even listed there. So i guess i hadnt installed it the first time around.
I dont have the orig cdrom that came with the mobo.
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/suppor...=&Page=1&num=0
change "all" to "intel"

Well, I tried most of the above for the same problem w/ hanging on boot in XP. The integrated207 and 159 drivers weren't available where you mentioned it, but I found them here: http://www.mpl.ch/t24a3.html
After using these two patches, the exact same things happened again. I went into to device manager and removed all the other working usb drivers, same problem on reboot. Back to device manager, I disabled (not removed) all the USB drivers, and lo and behold, it worked. I had to boot a second time to get XP to detect the 1394 device, and the other USB ports on my computer are still disabled and therefore inactive, but everything on this darned card works now after a mere 2 hours of frustration. Hope this helps somebody.

hi I am also having the same problem. If u found any solution please post me. thanks

Sandy by all means use the suggestions in the other threads - but don't post your question more than once.