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raymondvillain - 14 May 2008 16:23 GMT

Having lots of problems with USB ports. They refuse to work. Want to try to
uninstall them in safe mode, then re-boot to see if XP (pro, SP2) will
install them correctly. This was suggested in a posting about a year ago by
MowGreen.

When I go to "My Computer" and right click manage, then select device
manager, I can expand the icon by USB ports. I thought the way to uninstall
everything was to (one by one) right click each entry, then select
"uninstall". That is what I tried. The computer just hangs when I do that.
In safe mode, in safe mode with networking, in normal mode also. When that
happens it takes forever to get out of computer management, also takes way
too long to re-boot.

What is to be done?
Thanks in advance

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smlunatick - 14 May 2008 16:42 GMT

You can try to follow "USB drive not working stable" section from the following:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html

However, as with all Registry changes, this is a risk.

>Having lots of problems with USB ports. They refuse to work. Want to try to
>uninstall them in safe mode, then re-boot to see if XP (pro, SP2) will
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>What is to be done?
>Thanks in advance

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raymondvillain - 16 May 2008 02:51 GMT

Tried Devcon but no luck. The same thing happened. The computer just slowed
way down and did nothing. Read some other posts and tried removing .net
framework, seemed like that has caused USB problems for others. Could this
be a bios problem? Can't see how it could, the USB ports used to work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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> You can try to follow "USB drive not working stable" section from the following:
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smlunatick - 16 May 2008 14:59 GMT

On May 15, 9:51 pm, raymondvillain
<raymondvill...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Tried Devcon but no luck. The same thing happened. The computer just slowed
> way down and did nothing. Read some other posts and tried removing .net
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I also noticed the Devcon "batch" seemed to not do anything. However,
it took a lot of time. You might want to try to do a "clean boot" of
XP prior to retry the Devcon method.

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raymondvillain - 18 May 2008 02:02 GMT

Running in "CLEAN BOOT" now, renewusb.bat is taking a long time, more than
one hour. The DOS window is just sitting there, not showing any output
whatsoever. Does that seem right to you?

And the network activity indicator at the bottom right hand corner of my
screen is going continuously. Do you think that is an indication of more
serious problems?

Thanks,
Hank

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> On May 15, 9:51 pm, raymondvillain
> <raymondvill...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> it took a lot of time. You might want to try to do a "clean boot" of
> XP prior to retry the Devcon method.

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Pavel A. - 16 May 2008 18:51 GMT

When these problems began? Is this a new machine?
Have the ports ever work well? Have you installed the proper mobo drivers?

--PA

> Having lots of problems with USB ports. They refuse to work. Want to try
> to
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> What is to be done?
> Thanks in advance

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