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Old 09-10-2008, 10:22 AM   #1
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Unhappy XP SP2 seems to have completely forgotten what USB is.

my relatively ne pc (desktop) has been running fine for over 6 months now untill this morning when for some strange reason not one of the usb ports work. out of the 6 ports 4 just do nothing, not even a sound or confirmation than anything ever happened, and the other 2 just tell me that i'm plugging in "unknown usb device" no matter what i plug in. yet only 10 hours before my printer, external HDDs card reader and game controller were all working fine.

i have been on the internet trying various people's solutions but none work. in the BIOS my voltages are well within operating limits, the latest usb driver has been installed fater uninstalling and rebooting the previous one, full system restore to over a week ago...nothing works. any ideas?

thanks in advance.
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Old 09-10-2008, 11:09 AM   #2
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update: 5 of the 6 ports do absolutely nothing but 1 port now works fine. all i have done is restart.
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Old 09-10-2008, 12:03 PM   #3
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Motherboard brand and model?

List ALL your USB devices, please.
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Old 09-18-2008, 08:42 AM   #4
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the MB is a Asus P5B, i have 1 external HDD, a usb stand for my camera, a HP printer and a Medion sketch pad. my mouse and keyboars are PS2.

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Old 09-20-2008, 07:02 AM   #5
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after several reboots and some general faffing around in the registery i have managed to get my usb hubs up and going again. problem solved.
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Old 09-20-2008, 06:07 PM   #6
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please share with us what all you did so we can learn too.
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