USB Not Working

[Guest Neil]

Does anyone have any advice on how to get USB ports working in XP Home SP2?

 

The machineis a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, the owner (not me) has

re-installed windows, but now the USB ports won't work.

 

They show up a functioning etc in the Device Manager, and there are no newer

drivers according to MS. I think the ports are physically working, as a USB

pendrive lights up when inserted, but Windows doesn't recognise it's there.

I have re-installed the chipset drivers for the motherboard just in case,

but no joy, so I'm sure it must be a Windows thing, I just dont know how to

fix it!

 

TIA

 

Neil

[Guest Newbie Coder]

Re: USB Not Working

 

Neil,

 

If you right-click MY COMPUTER | PROPERTIES | HARDWARE tab | DEVIVE MANAGER you will

probably see yellow exclamation marks for the USB which means you need to install the USB

drivers for the motherboard

 

Search http://www.dell.com by the product code to be able to download the drivers unless you have

the driver disc

 

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"Neil" <Neil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Does anyone have any advice on how to get USB ports working in XP Home SP2?

>

> The machineis a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, the owner (not me) has

> re-installed windows, but now the USB ports won't work.

>

> They show up a functioning etc in the Device Manager, and there are no newer

> drivers according to MS. I think the ports are physically working, as a USB

> pendrive lights up when inserted, but Windows doesn't recognise it's there.

> I have re-installed the chipset drivers for the motherboard just in case,

> but no joy, so I'm sure it must be a Windows thing, I just dont know how to

> fix it!

>

> TIA

>

> Neil

[Guest SG]

Re: USB Not Working

 

Hi,

 

Is the pindrive the only thing you tried in the ports?

They do go bad and might be your problem.

 

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"Neil" <Neil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Does anyone have any advice on how to get USB ports working in XP Home

> SP2?

>

> The machineis a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, the owner (not me) has

> re-installed windows, but now the USB ports won't work.

>

> They show up a functioning etc in the Device Manager, and there are no

> newer

> drivers according to MS. I think the ports are physically working, as a

> USB

> pendrive lights up when inserted, but Windows doesn't recognise it's

> there.

> I have re-installed the chipset drivers for the motherboard just in case,

> but no joy, so I'm sure it must be a Windows thing, I just dont know how

> to

> fix it!

>

> TIA

>

> Neil

[Guest antioch]

Re: USB Not Working

 

 

"Neil" <Neil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Does anyone have any advice on how to get USB ports working in XP Home

> SP2?

> TIA

>

> Neil

 

Try here - in their forum.

http://www.everythingusb.com/

 

Antioch

[Guest Elmo]

Re: USB Not Working

 

Neil wrote:

> Does anyone have any advice on how to get USB ports working in XP Home SP2?

>

> The machine is a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, the owner (not me) has

> re-installed windows, but now the USB ports won't work.

>

> They show up a functioning etc in the Device Manager, and there are no newer

> drivers according to MS. I think the ports are physically working, as a USB

> pendrive lights up when inserted, but Windows doesn't recognize it's there.

> I have re-installed the chipset drivers for the motherboard just in case,

> but no joy, so I'm sure it must be a Windows thing, I just don't know how to

> fix it!

 

USB Help sites:

http://www.usbman.com/WinME%20USB%20Guide.htm

 

General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310575

 

Troubleshooting for USB drives

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

 

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[Guest Neil]

Re: USB Not Working

 

I have already checked device manager and everything seems to be OK, also

Re-loaded chipset drivers just in case and still no joy.

 

According to everything I read it should all work but doesn't.

 

I think the bin looms large!

 

Neil

 

"Newbie Coder" wrote:

> Neil,

>

> If you right-click MY COMPUTER | PROPERTIES | HARDWARE tab | DEVIVE MANAGER you will

> probably see yellow exclamation marks for the USB which means you need to install the USB

> drivers for the motherboard

>

> Search http://www.dell.com by the product code to be able to download the drivers unless you have

> the driver disc

>

> --

> Newbie Coder

> (It's just a name)

>

> "Neil" <Neil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:10E19652-20F2-4178-9A34-63D15C6C1011@microsoft.com...

> > Does anyone have any advice on how to get USB ports working in XP Home SP2?

> >

> > The machineis a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, the owner (not me) has

> > re-installed windows, but now the USB ports won't work.

> >

> > They show up a functioning etc in the Device Manager, and there are no newer

> > drivers according to MS. I think the ports are physically working, as a USB

> > pendrive lights up when inserted, but Windows doesn't recognise it's there.

> > I have re-installed the chipset drivers for the motherboard just in case,

> > but no joy, so I'm sure it must be a Windows thing, I just dont know how to

> > fix it!

> >

> > TIA

> >

> > Neil

>

>

[Guest jewheele@cisco.]

Re: USB Not Working

 

 

I believe these things travel in pairs...I loaned a dell inspiron 1150

to a friend for 2 weeks and he brought it back a week ago with neither

USB port working.

 

Similar to your problem ALL indicators are normal. The drivers are

recognized by XP, the status is good, I can toggle the status of the

ports, I can disable/enable, have deinstalled the drivers and

reinstalled them. But nothing actually causes the ports to recognize

any connected USB device.

 

It's not a power issue, the +5vdc is at the pins and lights up the

idiot lights on my flash drive but the logic is not recognizing the

ports or devices.

 

I have tried all options I can think of short of partiioning the hard

drive and installing linux to see if I can hit them from there.

 

Oddly though my first USB Controller (24CD) shows that it is a USB 2.0

Enhanced Controller and the other 3 Controllers show only normal (I am

assuming USB 1.0) controllers?

What does yours show here?

 

I tried reloading the drivers manually and pointing to the

C:\\windows\system32\drivers etc.. path for a reload of the drivers and

the XP wizard does not show any drivers there though I can manually walk

the tree and see them.

I am wondering if I've picked up a weird virus? and maybe you have as

well? Odd but why would all indicators state the ports are working but

they are not and why cannot I use the device manager to reload the

driver manually?

 

1. What 'type' does your first controller show? Do the Device

Manager, Driver, Driver Info walk and it'll also show you the path that

the drivers are supposed to be loaded from?

 

or:

 

Can you help me if you've resolved your issues?

 

I'm about ready to send this out somewhere and pay someone huge bucks

to fix something I'm just going to give away to a college student

anyway...

 

thanks for any thoughts, comments and / or flames.

 

 

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[Guest JSwift]

Re: USB Not Working

 

 

Hi,

 

Has anyone managed to get their Inspiron 1150 usb ports to work?

I'm having the same problem now after reinstalling XP.

 

Any help you can give would be much appreciated as I'm about to chuck

it in the bin!

 

Cheers

jeremy

 

 

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JSwift

[Guest ~~Alan~~]

Re: USB Not Working

 

After the installation, did you install the various device drivers including

the chipset drivers? I have an Inspiron 1150 and have reinstalled several

times. After the XP installation, I install the

 

Chipset

Video

network

audio

 

drivers in that order.

 

 

~alan

 

"JSwift" <jeremyswift@ediplc.com> wrote in message

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>

> Hi,

>

> Has anyone managed to get their Inspiron 1150 usb ports to work?

> I'm having the same problem now after reinstalling XP.

>

> Any help you can give would be much appreciated as I'm about to chuck

> it in the bin!

>

> Cheers

> jeremy

>

>

> --

> JSwift

[Guest JSwift]

Re: USB Not Working

 

 

To be honest I've reinstalled the drivers that many times I can't be

sure which order they were installed in.

 

Are you saying that if i reinstall the drivers (yet again) in the order

you have specified then the usb ports should work?

 

Jeremy

 

 

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JSwift

[Guest ~~Alan~~]

Re: USB Not Working

 

Also check the BIOS to make sure all of the onboard devices are enabled.

Maybe resetting the BIOS to default settings will help (F2 at POST)

 

Are you reinstalling from the Dell OEM installation CD/DVD that came with

your machine?

 

Do you have a reinstall partitioin that will bring the computer back to the

original factory installation (usually F11 at POST)?

 

Have you called Dell as a last resort?

 

Then there's one last thing. Are you sure the USB port is at fault or is

the USB device the problem? Can you connect another USB device to the same

port and will it also fail? Does the USB device have specific drivers?

 

~alan

 

 

"JSwift" <jeremyswift@ediplc.com> wrote in message

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>

> To be honest I've reinstalled the drivers that many times I can't be

> sure which order they were installed in.

>

> Are you saying that if i reinstall the drivers (yet again) in the order

> you have specified then the usb ports should work?

>

> Jeremy

>

>

> --

> JSwift

[Guest Kelly]

Re: USB Not Working

 

This has been a very common issue as of late. For most it has/had to do

with an ipod. Run the edit on line 400:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

 

Other than that installing a pci usb card also resets all onboard USB's.

 

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"~~Alan~~" <a.shepro@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Also check the BIOS to make sure all of the onboard devices are enabled.

> Maybe resetting the BIOS to default settings will help (F2 at POST)

>

> Are you reinstalling from the Dell OEM installation CD/DVD that came with

> your machine?

>

> Do you have a reinstall partitioin that will bring the computer back to

> the original factory installation (usually F11 at POST)?

>

> Have you called Dell as a last resort?

>

> Then there's one last thing. Are you sure the USB port is at fault or is

> the USB device the problem? Can you connect another USB device to the

> same port and will it also fail? Does the USB device have specific

> drivers?

>

> ~alan

>

>

> "JSwift" <jeremyswift@ediplc.com> wrote in message

> news:JSwift.3asjfh@no-mx.tabletquestions.com...

>>

>> To be honest I've reinstalled the drivers that many times I can't be

>> sure which order they were installed in.

>>

>> Are you saying that if i reinstall the drivers (yet again) in the order

>> you have specified then the usb ports should work?

>>

>> Jeremy

>>

>>

>> --

>> JSwift

>

>