USB Not Working

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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
 
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 www.dell.com by the product code to be able to download the drivers unless you have
the driver disc

--
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(It's just a name)

"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
 
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
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
 
"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
 
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 USB Guide.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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Joe =o)
 
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 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
>
>
 
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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jewheele@cisco.
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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
>
>
 
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