USB Device not recognised!

[billhann123]

USB Device not recognised. Help Please
My trusty thumb drive is no longer recognized - in fact none of the 3 memory sticks I use work on my computer although all three work on other machines.

I have a card reader with a front USB port that I usually use and this recognizes another mouse. My printer works fine as does my regular mouse and keyboard.

I have another 2 front ports neither of which appear to recognize other devices.

The message that appears when I attempt to connect the drive reads in part:

"USB Device not recognised
One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it. "

Can anyone please help.

Thank you in anticipation
billhann123

[billhann123]

Thanks for your welcome and links, Steve. I'll follow them up.

I read on another site a tip that I tried without success that advised switching off the power for 2 minutes before rebooting.

A net search shows that this problem is not uncommon. I would be interested in advice from anybody who has overcome a similar problem

Incidentally my machine has the following attributes for what it's worth:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name HOME-AC4L2XKM25
System Manufacturer AWARD_
System Model AWRDACPI
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~3200 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~3200 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 10/03/2004
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory F:\WINDOWS
System Directory F:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale Australia
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name HOME-AC4L2XKM25\WH (Bill) Hann
Time Zone W. Australia Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 128.57 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.22 GB
Page File F:\pagefile.sys

[billhann123]

Further to my last post, I suddenly realized that in a no-brainwave, I had switched off the wrong power switch so tried again the suggestion to switch off power for about 3 minutes and eureka! It worked! This saved me from dabbling with the Registry as suggested by Microsoft in Steve's last hyperlink above.

I'm not sure why this works, but it does!

Thanks again Steve.

[billhann123]

For anyone interested in this topic here is a link to the source of the advice to switch off power:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/in...8232&forumid=1

[yeadon563]

Are you plugging your usb device in the same port ;as where you installed the software for the device.

I have a Zen Touch that I was having a usb device not known. I switched the usb plug to my front usb port and the problem went away.

hths
Yeadon563

[billhann123]

Not really. Although it had an installation disk my generic USB flash drive was immediately recognized so the disk was not needed. Anyway when I checked it later, I found that the installation was targeted at Win98 or somesuch earlier OS.

Good luck

Bill Hann

[chintanbug]

Solved

Hi i had same issue when i tried to plug my Pocket PC from one US to another USB port...

Finally i solved somehow... check out the link

Usb device not recognized - One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned : Windows XP Error - Chintankumar Patel's Blog


and my blog

Chintankumar Patel's Blog

[nomie.f.baby]

lol hie
i tried dioung wot u did but i even how exact i try to copy the codes they just cant be recognised.the fisr one worked tho
plizz reply as soon as you can
am really sick and tired of my frezzing mouse
its been lyk this for almost three weeks!!!

[BipolarBill]

Please start your own thread.

It's a good idea to install Google Toolbar. It has a free spell-checker. Your spelling is so bad that it's really hard to tell what you're saying.