I've had a laptop for over two years. It's got the same legal copy of Windows XP on it that it came with. For over a year it worked fine. I don't know what I did, but the USB ports stopped working. They are NOT physically broken. Windows XP says there's something wrong with the driver. It says I need to update the BIOS on my motherboard. If it worked fine for over a year why would I all of a sudden need a BIOS upgrade now? Just out of curiousity, I ran Linux from a DVD and the USB ports work fine under Linux. I want to keep using Windows XP on this computer though. It's an SiS 7001 PCI to USB Open Host Controller. The control panel just says "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardwre but cannon find the hardware device (Code 41). How could Windows be so retarded? How can I get this to work WITHOUT changing the BIOS?
2006-12-31 13:34:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
go to device manager and uninstall all ur usb .. then reboot and it should redetect and work fine after that ...
2006-12-31 13:39:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes if you plug a USB device into one of the ports and it is detected, if you later put that device into a second port, it can confuse the ports and they stop working.
Go into the device manager and uninstall all the usb ports and devices. Reboot and it will reinstall the devices and clear the setting that is confusing them. After that they will work again.
2006-12-31 13:45:20 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You've been given two good pieces of advice. I don't know dze, but dewcoons knows what he's talking about.
Windows has just temporarily lost the drivers. They are there, Windows is lost. Follow the directions and I think you'll be fine.
2006-12-31 13:57:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a broken issues of windows xp
2006-12-31 13:42:36 · answer #4 · answered by abodrak 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋