Re: Help!! USB not working!! Any ideas??


"Hobbers" <Hobbers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Device Manager comes up with an exclamation mark against one of the
USB
ports when the printer is plugged in. When the camera is plugged in, an
exclamation mark has also appeared, but in random places!

I've run several Registry Mechanic scans, but nothing has worked. I'll
try
your suggestions. Thank you!


The exclamation marks point to a driver problem. Sorry, I don't think such
a problem is caused by errors in the registry. Perhaps it would be time to
reinstall the driver.
Jim

"Mike Scirocco" wrote:

Hobbers wrote:
Hi.
I have a 3-month old Mesh computer with Windows XP Media Centre, fully
up-to-date. The computer has 8 USB ports, plus in-built memory card
reader.
Everything has been fine until 2 weeks ago. Whilst printing some pages
off
eBay my printer started printing out a whole load of code for no
apparent
reason. It went through pages and pages of this and the cancel button
wouldn't work so I turned it off to stop it. Since then, the computer
does
not recognise the printer, saying that it is not connected, even though
it is
connected and the driver still installed. Worse still, none of the USB
ports
now recognise anything, including the memory card reader. For example,
when
I connect my digital camera, a drive appears to show it is connected,
but
when I double click on that drive, the drive is empty. It does not
recognise
memory cards at all now.
I have spoken to Mesh who first advised a System Restore back to before
the
error occurred, but this did nothing. Next, they updated part of the
registry. That did nothing. Now they are saying that is likely to
have been
caused by a Windows Security Update and that lots of people are
suffering
from this?!!! They advise reinstalling Windows!!
Has anyone else experienced this problem, or more importantly, does
anyone
know how to fix it???!
Please help me someone!!
Thanks.

Do you see anything unusual in the Device Manager?

You might try running some freeware programs and seeing if they make any
sense out of it.

http://pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,6085-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html

http://www.lvr.com/usb.htm
Software-only Analyzers
Hardware/Software Analyzers

http://www.newfreedownloads.com/find/usb-analyzer.html



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