Guest Neil Posted December 8, 2007 Posted December 8, 2007 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 Posted December 8, 2007 Posted December 8, 2007 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 -- 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 SG Posted December 8, 2007 Posted December 8, 2007 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. -- All the best, SG How to Write a Newsgroup Post: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Usenet "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 antioch Posted December 8, 2007 Posted December 8, 2007 Re: USB Not Working "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? > TIA > > Neil Try here - in their forum. http://www.everythingusb.com/ Antioch
Guest Elmo Posted December 8, 2007 Posted December 8, 2007 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 -- Joe =o)
Guest Neil Posted December 8, 2007 Posted December 8, 2007 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. Posted February 11, 2008 Posted February 11, 2008 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. -- jewheele@cisco.
Guest JSwift Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 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 -- JSwift
Guest ~~Alan~~ Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 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 news:JSwift.3asdg6@no-mx.tabletquestions.com... > > 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 Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 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 -- JSwift
Guest ~~Alan~~ Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 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 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
Guest Kelly Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 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. -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm SupportSpace http://www.supportspace.com/pages?aiu=kellyskorner "~~Alan~~" <a.shepro@gmail.com> wrote in message news:eO9umRHzIHA.4816@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > 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 > >
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