In a message dated 3/24/2007 10:50:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My USB ports have pretty much stopped working. The only device they'll recognize is my old Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer.
It start a couple nights ago, when the computer pretty much froze while I was trying to shut it down. I had to shut it down by holding down the power button til it shut off. The next day, none of my USB peripherals were recognized by the computer except my aforementioned mouse. When I plug in either of my hubs or any of the individual devices (such as my card reader or external hard drives) to my laptop's ports, Windows says "USB Device Not Recognized" blah blah. I've tried: - Rebooting - Rebooting with no USB devices attatched - Uninstalling the USB Root Hubs in Device Manager and letting Windows reinstall them - Flashing my system BIOS, in case something happened there Are there basic Windows USB drivers I can try to update or fix somehow? Where do I find them and what can I do? Any help would be fantastic, as I really need to be able to get into my external hard drives and such asap. Thanks! John ========= First I would suspect your USB card inside your computer has worked loose a bit. But then I don't know if you have a USB card. But cards can work loose and cause major problems. Really hard to say John, you might need to give people more information. For instance, I've been having all kinds of weird problems that first I thought were one thing then another. Turns out the problem was with my broadband cable connection, Comcast, to the Net and my home network, i.e. my router too. I have now plugged in a wireless adapter and dumped the Ethernet cable and all seems well. See what I mean? Are you on broadband as well when these problems occur? It might be hard to track down because of the various configurations your computer can have. But the easiest thing to do is restore Windows to a previous restore point when you know things worked. Help/System Restore. My recommendation is to try that first. Go back four to five days to a week. That will narrow down if it is a software problem or a hardware problem. If they don't work after a restore (which is a software restore), then it's very likely to be a hardware problem. Marnie aka Doe ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
