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My USB Ports don't work anymore! Plz help

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by davidhye, Feb 8, 2007.

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  1. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    look at the board near the usb connectors to see if any components damaged.
     
    ddp, Feb 11, 2007
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    Have a go at re-soldering the cut wire to the frontal USB's,failing that add another card if you have a spare slot
     
    scorpNZ, Feb 11, 2007
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  3. davidhye

    davidhye Regular member

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    you know what, guys - i am planning to make another partition to install Vista, so i would see if it's software or hardware...
    if it's not gonna work after clean install then it's hardware, and i am not gonna do anything about it, since i would be upgrading in october.

    thanks for help!
    i can reply to this thread when i would install vista, if you guys want
     
    davidhye, Feb 12, 2007
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  4. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    post so we will know either way.
     
    ddp, Feb 13, 2007
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  5. davidhye

    davidhye Regular member

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    well... i just messed the whole computer up!
    freaking PartitionMagic
    ok, so what happened was - it rebooted and gave error on 33% like it did also 2 months ago... i wasn't scared because 2 months ago - even though it had an error - everything worked magically fine..
    in this case..... BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH....
    and what the hell am i supposed to do if i have biology paper due tomorrow and humanities paper due to next week and i have all my materials on that computer.
    and of course like last time and i didn;t do backup... so i am screwed

    any ideas how can i revive my computer?
     
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    davidhye, Feb 14, 2007
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  6. davidhye

    davidhye Regular member

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    so, i reinstalled XP.. and yea - it's hardware not software issue (USB)
     
    davidhye, Feb 14, 2007
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    davidhye Regular member

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    and also on Vista too.... it's actually pretty hard without USB ports
     
    davidhye, Feb 15, 2007
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    disable the usb ports thru the bios & get a pci card that has 4 to 5 usb2 ports. can get a combo card that also has firewire on it but will reduce number of usb ports.
     
    ddp, Feb 16, 2007
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    You did make sure the broken wires to front usb were not shorting on each other or on something else. Easy to happen and easy to fix. Just a thought since and if they both (front and back) stopped working at the same time this could be the reason.
     
    johnnyd54, Feb 24, 2007
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