USB Orgy -- Or Lack Of
 

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/6666/usb2ko9.jpg

The flagged one says

Quote:

This device cannot start. (Code 10) Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

The unknown device:

Quote:

No drivers are installed for this device. If you are having problems with this device, click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter.

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/8942/usbbs4.jpg
Almost anything I plug into my machine. I am using a Tyan Trinity i7205 motherboard that has 2 USB ports in the back which for the most part seem to function just fine. Certain devices will just not work...but they work on other machines. The front of the case has 2 working ports. Some devices work on those and not others....

I added a PCI card with 4 ports for more devices which seems to work for me fine. My 10-in-one card reader was working for the most part as it is a USB device (had to plug in to the USB portion of my motherboard) but after stupidly "removing" an SD card as if it were a USB storage device, that 10-in-one won't be recognized anymore.

My new wired USB hub doesn't work. In any of the existing 9 ports. I've got a clusterfuck of devices that will and will not work (eg: iPod won't connect if my WD Passport is plugged in) and other mysterious problems.

I've got my newest drivers and BIOS and such for the motherboard, yet these USB issues persist. And for those of you who really need to know...

Mouse, Printer, Scanner, Gamepad, External Enclosure, WD Passport, Microphone, Webcam (lol camsex), and ideally with the hub:

Digital camera, flash drive, iPod as well.

So typically the devices just come up as "Not Recognized" but they power on (hub power light is on, but no devices connect through it)

Any specific suggestions?

For now, unplug all of your external USB devices.

Also, turn off your computer, and unplug all of the USB devices which plug into your motherboard (remember where they go). This could possibly include the USB ports at the front of your computer, and the multi-card reader, if it is one of those that is on the front of your computer case.
Since the PCI card has its own USB controlling hardware, and like you said, doesn't seem to have any problems, don't worry about that.

Turn your computer back on.
Try out some of the problem devices on the USB ports that are permanently embedded on your motherboard.


Report the results.

The problem is that the "problem devices" work in certain ports and/or with only certain other devices plugged in at the same time. The PCI card DOES have some problems, but I'm happy that I have 4 devices plugged into it that all work.

Actually, I'm noting that it seems that plug 'n' play devices work better than those that require/support drivers.

When did you start getting problems?
Also, how old is this motherboard?

The mobo is running on 4 years (New PC in April/May anyway).

I've had the problems for about a year, but that was with the external hard drives which I could fix by re-plugging them in.

Now with more devices, there's a more hectic situation.

Well, anyways, try uninstalling as many USB ports and devices as you can, and reboot, and all that stuff.

There are too many combinations of plugging things in to make it worth while. Rebooting does nothing to help the cause.

This is a long run, but I guess we'll try this.

What this fix does:

Sometimes when using multiple usb ports, registry keys in Windows XP get confused. What this fix does is deletes the registry keys for all the usb devices that you have plugged into your usb ports (since Windows gives a name for each device that uses the USB port ONCE, meaning that it uses the same name in EVERY port, for EVERY device, but only references it once. Doing so over time can confuse windows into thinking that it can't recognize the device (especially if you switch usb ports with the device alot, like I do)


1. Make sure nothing is plugged into the usb ports.

2. Click "Start", choose "run" and type "regedit". Without quotation marks.

3. Click "File" choose "export", save this file on the desktop called "backupregistry" without quotations.

NOTE: Before deleting some entries you will have to change the Permissions. You do this by highlighting the entry you want and going to the EDIT Menu and select Permissions and give everyone full control.

4. Then, back in Registry Editor, I want you to go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USB\".

5. Delete every key under the "USB" folder that begin with "VID_###". (Where ### represents a number, for example "VID_0781&PID_6100")
Again, make sure nothing is plugged into the USB ports, or it wont let you delete the key. Also, if you have any SATA drives, it wont let you delete the keys for those if the drives are in use (since they show up as USB.)

Once you're done deleting all of those keys, restart the machine. Login to your account (if you have to login), then one by one, try plugging in a device.

If that doesn't work, double click your "backupregistry" file, to restore the system to the state it was in before, then restart the computer.