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faulty usb port and shutting down problems
my parents bought a windows xp home edition computer last
christmas. the usb port has never worked, not for our printer or our handspring visor cradles. i checked to make sure the port was attached to the motherboard, plus cleaned all the dust inside the computer case. i went to device manager, which said that the usb root hub and the universal host controller are both working properly. i tried uninstalling the hardware and then reinstalling it, but the port is still not recognized. i tried to get into bios and check the irq for usb but i can't even restart my computer properly to get the prompt for bios -- the computer hangs at "windows is shutting down"! i checked the windows support site and found a few updates/service packs that claim to fix the shutting down problem at least, but each take approximately 90 min. to download. is there anything i can try/do that would be a lot simpler??? -leyjfk |
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faulty usb port and shutting down problems
You enter the BIOS at bootup. Check that your USB ports are enabled. When XP
boots up go into the DEVICE MANAGER and check your USB settings. "leyjfk" wrote in message ... my parents bought a windows xp home edition computer last christmas. the usb port has never worked, not for our printer or our handspring visor cradles. i checked to make sure the port was attached to the motherboard, plus cleaned all the dust inside the computer case. i went to device manager, which said that the usb root hub and the universal host controller are both working properly. i tried uninstalling the hardware and then reinstalling it, but the port is still not recognized. i tried to get into bios and check the irq for usb but i can't even restart my computer properly to get the prompt for bios -- the computer hangs at "windows is shutting down"! i checked the windows support site and found a few updates/service packs that claim to fix the shutting down problem at least, but each take approximately 90 min. to download. is there anything i can try/do that would be a lot simpler??? -leyjfk |
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