PCI Plug & PLay device not working

[mystvearn]

Last night, my neighbour called me asking me to help on his pc. Its an old pc win98 SE. He has a PCI USB slot- He wants to setup a web cam. The weird thinig is there are no drivers with the PCI card. The pc shop just gave the card and a webcam which came with a driver. The card is working, but not registering in the pc. The driver which 98 recommended was useless. I tried a generic usb device, but the usb is not working. The card was some weird brand. I have given up on the card. How to solve this problem. There should be a driver with PCI components, right. The shop just gave a bare card. I don't get it. From what I see the pc is not in good condition, hardware & software. Barely running. I'm not sure if someone changed the windows folder.
So I told him to take the pc to the shop and let them fix it.

[GaryRouth]

If the web cam is a USB 2.0 device, it would need the drivers for both the card and the update for Win98se that provides USB 2.0 support. The web cam wouldn't work at all with a USB 1 port, or in a USB 2 port without the drivers and update installed.

If the add-in card was recognized, it would be down at the bottom of the list of devices in Device Manager. . . all the USB devices get stuck down there = both type 1 and type 2.

The pc shop shouldn't have much trouble sorting it out for your neighbor, they should have a good driver handy.
. . . Gary

[mystvearn]

yes. Updating the 98 SE is a pain. His dial up connection is one of the worse I've seen, Like 3k max. And frequent disconnection. I could lower the max transfer rate, but it will make the connection more slower. The cam came with the cam's drive. The cam did work on another xp pc, but does not work-I'm blamming the card.
Anyway, he brought it to the shop-they will fix it for free.

[GaryRouth]

I like that price (free!)

You know what = if this is an old enough machine that it had to stretch to run Win98se, I wonder if the motherboard didn't have PCI 2.1 compliant slots, and the card needs them. That would be one case in which the card would work in WinXP and not in Win98 [ . . . in addition to the update]

PC hardware time sure is accellerating! . . . I still remember how happy I was when PCI first came out . . .
. . . Gary

[mystvearn]

Streched, more like on breaking limits. On top of that te pc is not well taken care off. Made it slower by placing themes, too much icon on a desktop taskbar. Well its his pc. He uses it when he has scool holiday. The screen is like some 12 inch crt. Very blurr graphics.