Conflicting usb devices

[bcd2k]

Hi,

I have two identical usb devices (bcd2000's if it matters) but they can't seem to tolerate eachother. Installation of the one, cancels the installation of the other and vice versa. It also gives me a code 42 error (Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because there is a duplicate device already running in the system).

I seem to be unable to manually assign resources through the device manager. There's just no resources tab there. I've only got one kind of driver for the both of them, though I've got access to different versions of it. I've already tried manually duplicating system32 driver files and registry entries, hoping to create a separate driver so they wouldn't have to fight for the same driver files, but I don't really have a clue what I'm doing. (I've done backups, yes.)

So, is there a method out there to force two identical devices to peacefully coexist?

[-pops-]

is there a method out there to force two identical devices to peacefully coexist?

I don't think so. There will always be the problem of the machine not identifying the correct device. The situation is different with drives where the computer is able to assign identifiers but I don't think your devices are drives, are they?

[bcd2k]

Nope, they aren't drives.

Still, if I plug in two identical webcams for instance, windows has no problem identifying them and running them at the same time, without conflicts. So logically the fact that my bcd2000's are identical shouldn't stop windows from realizing we're dealing with two pieces of hardware here.

(My best guess at the moment are the drivers. I think they're just poorly programmed. Oh well...)