The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Really Confusing USB problem

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Anomaly10, Nov 20, 2008.

  1. Anomaly10

    Anomaly10 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    83
    Messages:
    311
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    So after googling around, I've found countless references to this problem with an accompanying number of solutions. Unfortunately, none of them seems to work for me.
    The problem is that my M860TU seems to have developed a disliking for certain USB devices. When I plug them in, I get an error message saying "A USB Device has malfunctioned." At first, it was just my IOGEAR Mobile Digital Scribe, but now it's spread to the USB mouse I use when out and about as well. Surprisingly, both my WD Passport and MX518 still work fine in the same USB ports. I've tried pretty much eveything to try and resolve this -- unplugging USB device, deleting INFCACHE.1, and restarting, uninstalling all the USB drivers (just the IOGEAR one in my case), and even taking out the battery for ~45 minutes and then plopping it back in. Nada. I'd really appreciate any help =/
     
    Anomaly10, Nov 20, 2008
    #1
  2. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    4,843
    Messages:
    8,389
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    205
    Just thinking - could you go into device manager and check if your USB hub drivers are up to date??

    Also - is this a Driver or OS problem?
     
    DetlevCM, Nov 20, 2008
    #2
  3. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

    Reputations:
    6,926
    Messages:
    8,178
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    You may have to do more than just uninstall and reinstall the device-specific drivers. It sounds like there may be some conflict or incompatibility problem with either the hub drivers or the chipset drivers, so it might be best to uninstall the chipset drivers, and reinstall them (or install the latest version if you don't already have them).
     
    Shyster1, Nov 20, 2008
    #3