Well,,here goes. My PC= XPPro-ServPk 3. Asus A8N-E AMD Dual Core Athlon 939pin at:2420mhz. 2 Gigs PC3200 DDR 440 Sdram run in dual channel.
About 3 days ago, i started getting pop-ups on the task bar that say: USB device not recognized. One of the USB Devices Attached to this computer has malfunctioned,and Windows does not recognize it. For assistance in solving this problem, Click this message. Clicking the message,brings up this box:
Which, as it turns out means nothing. I unplugged my USB scanner and USB printer(which were working just fine) and still kept getting the popup. I exchanged my USB mouse with another with no difference. I finally put a USB to PS-2 adapter on the mouse and plugged it into the PS-2. No difference. Still get the popup. The popups come up randomly like every few seconds to several minutes between them. Device Mangler shows only the printer attached. I've tried all the other USB plug-ins with the printer and it works in all of them,but I still get the d*mn popup. Have checked and exchanged all the USB cables with no satisfaction. The one thing that happened that was different,was before I changed the mouse from USB. On bootup,the mouse was dead. It's(they)are wired optical. Tried it in other USB plugs,but was still dead. That's when I used the PS2 adapter and then it worked. Beginning to think it may be a screwed USB system on the Mobo.It 'has' been around for over 3 years now. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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