RESOLVED: USB problem...

Elven-RogueElven-Rogue Scranton, PA
edited November 2004 in Hardware
Was helping somone with a computer and im a bit stumped the USB ports worked fine untill they upgraded to windows 2000 now they wont read i tried everythign i could think of... Any ideas? Thanks.

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  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited November 2004
    First of all some punctuation would be appreciated since it usually makes things easier to read for most people at least it was like you were talking really fast and forgot to take a breath it also made it hard to read oh and a period and the shift key are your friends ;)


    Did you check to make sure the cables were plugged in good and tight on the motherboard? And what have you tried connecting? Just wondering, making sure it isn't the device itself that's faulty. How many ports are there? Is just one broken, or all of them? If it's just one, maybe the port fried itself. If they're all bad, try reinstalling the drivers.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    Not that I don't silently sympathize with you about the punctuation, Entropy, but I sense a disturbance in the Force.. As if a 16 year old Thrax has been embodied.
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    what os did you upgrade from? have you treid installing new win2k usb drivers for the usb adapter?
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited November 2004
    Thrax wrote:
    Not that I don't silently sympathize with you about the punctuation, Entropy, but I sense a disturbance in the Force.. As if a 16 year old Thrax has been embodied.
    /me kills self ;D
    Just messin' with ya.
    I know. I prolly shouldn't've said anything. After looking back on my first handful of posts here, I didn't bother with capitalization. Guilty as charged. I'm not usually all that rude to folks (am I? :eek::() and it was meant as a joke. Sure, the point is there, but it was meant mostly as fun. Sorry if I actually did offend you, Elven. :( No harm meant :).
  • Elven-RogueElven-Rogue Scranton, PA
    edited November 2004
    Was upgraded form windows me, cables seem good, im not sure if i have the right drivers though... Its a Compaq Presario 5204 so most of the stuff inside is really packed in there hard to get to anythign to clean real good or check.
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    oh a few ideas
    (what device are you trying to use with the ports btw, is it a printer by chance?)

    1) make sure you have sp4 installed for usb 2.0 support
    2) does the usb controller show up ok in device manager?

    Im pretty sure sp4 wil lfix it if you don't have it already. windowsupdate.com, hopefully you have broadband.
  • Elven-RogueElven-Rogue Scranton, PA
    edited November 2004
    I got it the computer had installed an unsupported driver just had to install the right one. Thanks for the help. ER
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