Zen micro... installed drivers.... usb dont recogni

I reformatted twice.... usb doesnt recognize the player.... installed drivers many times...
first time i insert the player to the computer it always adds a "multimedia audio controller" in other devices in the device manager... and asks for the driver.... but i alrdy installed the Drivers!!!
one time when I reformatted, I tried the zen and it worked... once.... then back to the normal problems...
everytime the usb doesnt recognize the player feeezes.... or maybe its the other way around? maybe because the player is crap and it freezes when you put it into the usb port that it doesnt recognize because its frozen/?

tom23 wrote:
I understand your point about it being the pc, but really creative should ensure their products are more compatabile too....i've used countless other usb devices and never had or heard of issues, yet on this forum alone there are a lot of people with this complaint with their creative device.
its quite annoying that it would seem creative and pc manufacturers allow these even if they be slight differences to occur at all.
anyhoo, im going to try another pc different to this one...this is a p4 asus p5gdc-v deluxe m/obo...the other one is an amd duron, older system....if it works on that im still going to be ticked off as it will mean the combo of them wont work on this pc, the decent pc....
I don't know who's at fault here generally, although I have heard of at least two specific instances where it was caused by some fault in the USB chipset. Also some devices have very low demands when connected to USB e.g. a mouse, whereas MP3 players are pulling large amounts of data over the connection.

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