Computer not recognising USB connections

[Phaser]

Hi,

Ever since I reformatted my computer it's stopped picking up USB connections. It recognises them, and the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon appears in the taskbar but I can't actually use it.

I've tried different USB ports, different things such as mp3 players, external hard drives and still nothing.

I even thought it was my mp3 player so I went out and forked out £200 on a new one. Got it home, connected it up and nothing. Have to use my laptop to transfer songs on to it.

I thought it was perhaps driver related, but i've installed the USB 2.0 drivers that came on the disk and still nothing.

Spec is an Asus barebones unit, it's the Vintage AE1 along with a A64 3000+ and 1GB of Samsung RAM.

Any ideas?

I got an external hard drive today from OCUK. Didn't work on the USB port so I connected it via firewire. All good. I went to plug it in again earlier and now it's not picking it up. Great - £120 down the drain.

Anyone got any ideas about the whole USB thing, and how I can get this hard drive working? It all lights up etc and I was transferring files fine before but like I said, plugged it in earlier and it's like the USB issue again, not picking it up on the computer.

Any help greatly appreciated!

 

[Phaser]

Good point, will check it out tonight mate.

 

[Phaser]

One of my trademark stupid suggestions here, but have you re-installed the drivers that came with each USB item you're trying to use?

PK!

Yep.

After reformatting did you re-install sp2 on xp, you need that to get usb 2.0 again.

Yeah - SP2 is already installed.

Could also be an issue with the way windows assigns drive letters, this is a very common network issue if you have network drives mapped to early drive letters such as E: F: G: etc.

If you don't have any netweork drives try just playing around with the drive letters and free up some of the early ones.

Hmm, I have 1 hard drive, split into 2. C: and D:

The external hard drive labelled itself as F:

 

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Think i've sorted it guys. Was looking in my BIOS and saw a USB 2.0 setting - it was set to High Speed. I changed it to Full Speed and my external hard drive is now working via USB. Haven't tried anything else yet.