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Old December 18th 08, 04:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Big E
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Default USB Controller list in Device Manager

Paul, Jeffery and all...
Finally fixed it. Been a wicked couple days with this old beast. Power
supply checks out fine - it had gotten new caps when I did the motherboard
regulator for the CPU. about a year and a half ago - all still good. Voltages
w/i spec, available current aplenty.

After trying everything in the posts, I attempted a repair install with a
slipstreamed SP3 disc. On the restart, just as it would get to the black
Windows bootup screen, there would be a flash of BSOD and then reboot over
and over. Tried it again with the original disk with SP1. Same thing. Did a
fresh complete install from the SP3 disk and voila, I have more operational
USB ports than you can shake a stick at, both the onboard SiS and the NEC
card. The PCI bus is back. Something way down in the grizzled innards of XP
was amiss. Wish I could have found it so I didn't have to reload all the
software. On the upside, I've got a spanking clean registry with no junk in
it.

Thanks for all your help.
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