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

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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