The same is happening for me, except I'm running Windows 7 32bit, and it shows up as an unrecognised device in the Device Manager.
That thread you and nickmaynard linked to aren't of much help at all. 7 still says it can't find any drivers for the device or whatever
Right now I'm looking at trading with someone for a Bleepbloop cart. But if anyone finds a solution, gimme a holler.

Actually is a defective cart, it doesn't work. Kitsch warned me about it and that's really ok.

I'd say you have a problem with your os installation (registry corruption is what it sounds like you already have, possibly driver corruption for the USB Host controller itself, Maybe even a possible IRQ conflict, who knows...) , the cards don't show up under the device manager, but when you load up the flash software, it will show you that the device is connected if it initialized properly via the buss...

For the record I have 3 EMS carts all running flawlessly....

I am running 2 xps m1710's and they install the drivers just fine on both (32bit and 64 bit, I've had them running under vista 32/64 & Win7 32/64).....

So, it didn't work at all. This ends my first experience with an EMS cart. I thing I didn't miss a thing about how it should work and it's a cart problem. Oh well, LSDJ will wait a little more then.

Aye! XP wins! It's not working yet, I'm re-downloading the drivers cause the cd I have doesn't help in installing the drivers. That's my battle for now. But it sounds promissing (i'll be finally able to test lsdj with my new backlight!)

That's the weirdest part, i couldn't do it manually. Vista is so fucked up that when I tried to manually install it said it didn't had any valid 32bits drivers there. So, I was going to try that program who puts windows in test mode, but when I had to restart my pc it kept hanging on the updating screen and Vista died.

BUT, the thing that is bugging me is that it doesn't show at windows as a unrecognized usb device or whatever. It doesn't show up at all. That bugs me the most.

Tonight probably I'll have XP on my laptop and i'll be able to know if it's a cart issue or a os issue, I will be able to install the drivers properly and then I can assume that I was stupid enough or it was EMS' fault.

XPS and dell 400 series have issues with 3rd party drivers.  that would be a problem, yes.

For sure reason that softwarte does not WORKA T ALLL on my dell xps. Works fine on any other usb chipset.

This sounds stupid but... you did install teh drivers as the leaflet says, right?

So, it wasn't recognized at my work's computer. In my most optmistic side i think it's a firewall setting, but it keeps bugging me that it's not even being seen by the os that something is connected at the usb port. Since I kinda fucked my laptop I'm kinda screwed, but whatever. I was trying to test the method with the test mode of that little program and my computer at home was not prepared to be restarted so many times that it asked.

But anyway, i'll let it go till saturday.

I overlooked this thread cause it was for 64bits, but I might try that even that my win is 32bits.

anything helpful here? - http://8bc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=19999

32bits. I've heard already people saying that it never works and I'm kinda accepting my issue. It will be hard to backup until I have a proper desktop with xp, but until then I'll dare my luck.

Mine never works with Windows Vista