2006-12-24 12:50:41 · 5 answers · asked by tamtamd3 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Look on the driver disk for your motherboard. You may well find that there are drivers on there that need to be installed. (I have an older motherboard, and installing the drivers solved a problem I was experiencing with USB ports.)
2006-12-24 14:03:18 · answer #1 · answered by micksmixxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look in device manager and right click on the name of your computer (should be all the way at the top) and rescan for devices. If nothing turns up, it is possible that you have a USB hub or port that has gone bad. Try moving the connection to other ports and see if it shows up on one of those. Usually, there are 2 ports that are the root of the USB hub and should always work, the rest cascade off of those. If absolutely none of those work, try a different USB device, the device may have gone bad and the USB ports are fine. If that comes up with the same results, and there are no broken devices in device manager, I would have to say there is something wrong with the mother board itself. You could try to re-install the chipset drivers, this is where the USB drivers generally come from.
2006-12-24 21:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by Ed R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if the device is plugged in and on it should show up in the device manager, if it does not either your usb connections are not installed or are not working, if you try plugging in some other usb device and it works it could be the device you are trying to connect is not working or does in fact need a driver....without knowing the device itself that yuou are trying to connect, can't really tell you which driver to install, if any.
2006-12-24 20:53:56 · answer #3 · answered by Helping Since 1969 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is not an answer to your question. but it is something all users of usb flash drives should know about.
it is possible to install software on usb flash drives. most people think you can only use portable apps on them. this is not true at all.
any software you can install on a hard drive will work on a flash drive without any alterations to the app.
all external drives EXCEPT usb flash drives are treated as external drives. on them you can only install portabke apps.
a flash drive is treated like a subfolder on a hard drive not as an external drive. so install your apps on your hard drive and drag and drop or copy and paste their folder over to the flash drive. all the files in that folder will be copied to the flash drive.
now the app will be on the flash drive but it will think it is still on the hard drive.
after your app is on the flash drive DO NOT TRY TO INSTALL IT. it is already installed.
so knowing this "All Apps Are Now Portable". :)
UNINSTALLING FLASH DRIVE APPS
do not try to uninstall apps that are on the flash drive by clicking on start button > control panel > add/remove programs. this is only for apps on the hard drive.
instead click on the folder on the flash drive that has your app in it and look for an uninstall icon. double click that and it will uninstall the app. if any files are left over simply delete them by hand.
by using the above method of installing apps on a flash drive i now have photoshop, paintshop pro, yahelite, yahoo instant messenger and many other apps that normally wouldn't install on a flash drive. :))
2006-12-24 21:28:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you shouldn't need USB drivers for windows XP, but if they got deleted or something lookup it up on google.
2006-12-24 20:53:04 · answer #5 · answered by AdmOrian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋