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xcntalien · 11-04-05, 12:28 PM

I found the upgrade went on fine, then I struggled with ActiveSync 4.0/4.1 for a day - I just couldn't get the thing to make a partnership over USB. None of the M$ AS troubleshooting was of any use as I don't run firewalls, traffic management software, VPN etc.

Anyway, cutting a long story short, I noticed that in Device Manager that the "Dell x50v" had the exclamtion mark against it. I clicked "Re-install driver" and let it find some files which turn out to be the USB drivers that AS 4.0/4.1 mentions as it's installing...

Why this binding of the USB drivers has to be a manual thing I do not know - but this worked on both my laptop and my home PC (both running XP).

Even though the upgrade to Mobile 5 went fine and my problem with AS4 is sorted - I am still going to roll back to WM2003 SE A05 as Mobile 5 will not see my SysOnChip CF Memory GPS card - which renders TomTom5.1 unusable on Mobile 5 for me :-(

I recall that the early WM2003 SE ROMS from Dell provided very intermittent CF compatibility, so I'll wait for the next Mobile 5 release...

Regards,
Stuart.

11-04-05, 12:28 PM	#6 (permalink)
xcntalien Aximsite Prospect Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I found the upgrade went on fine, then I struggled with ActiveSync 4.0/4.1 for a day - I just couldn't get the thing to make a partnership over USB. None of the M$ AS troubleshooting was of any use as I don't run firewalls, traffic management software, VPN etc. Anyway, cutting a long story short, I noticed that in Device Manager that the "Dell x50v" had the exclamtion mark against it. I clicked "Re-install driver" and let it find some files which turn out to be the USB drivers that AS 4.0/4.1 mentions as it's installing... Why this binding of the USB drivers has to be a manual thing I do not know - but this worked on both my laptop and my home PC (both running XP). Even though the upgrade to Mobile 5 went fine and my problem with AS4 is sorted - I am still going to roll back to WM2003 SE A05 as Mobile 5 will not see my SysOnChip CF Memory GPS card - which renders TomTom5.1 unusable on Mobile 5 for me :-( I recall that the early WM2003 SE ROMS from Dell provided very intermittent CF compatibility, so I'll wait for the next Mobile 5 release... Regards, Stuart.