I tried to put 14 erupters on my xp machine and for some reason I could only get it to see 8 at most. A few others would show up in device manager but would have a bang and say that an identicle device was present. When I would unplug one to plug another in, I would in fact lose two.
I followed the instructions on installing the Zadig for xp and xp drivers. Any help appreciated.
HI, Just wanted to let you know that I am also having the same situation. I was running 10 erupters on an Orico hub, using a stand alone pc with Vista and no issues. I switched out to a laptop with windows Xp, and Xp would only recognize 8 out of the 10. I looked at the conflicts in device manager, and one said that it couldn't load the drivers due to a duplicate device, and the second one was because the device wasn't working properly. So I switched back to the pc with Vista, and no issues with the erupters.
It's most likely with Xp itself, probably just needs to be updated so its current. At least that's my guess.