Abit KT7 USB Fault

[RichDem]

I have an aging KT7 motherboard with an Athlon 850, This board has served me perfectly for several years but all of a sudden I have lost all of my USB devices, nothing works at all. In the system manager everything is reported as being OK. I am running XP but also have Windows 2000 Pro running on a seperate partition which I use for video editing. I have also booted into 2000 to see if my HP deskjet was recognized..... nothing here also. So I can only assume that there may possibly be a hardware fault, This did happen a couple of weeks ago but I seem to remember I got it working again by disabling the USB in the bios, booting into windows then restarting and then re enabling the USB in the bios. I tried this to no avail.

Does anyone have any ideas on a fix??

Any help as allways will be greatly appreciated.

Richard

[Imperion1]

In Device Manager, click to Show Hidden Devices. Remove the USB devices from Device Manager. When the system boots up, it should reinstall the devices.

Also, have you tried unplugging the devices.

[RichDem]

Hi,

Yes I have allready tried uninstalling all of the USB devices from the device manager and then restarting windows, the USB is then recognized by windows and the drivers installed, unfortunately this has made no difference.

Richard

[Imperion1]

And again.
Also, have you tried unplugging the devices.

[BipolarBill]

Open System Information (MSINFO32.EXE) and navigate to Hardware Resources > IRQs. Click anywhere in the right pane and then press CTRL-A and then CTRL-C. You have copied that data to the clipboard. Paste that data in a reply here.

It could very well be that USB somehow became disabled in BIOS setup. Check that.

[RichDem]

Here is the information you asked for

IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 3 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 3 NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro OK
IRQ 3 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 3 VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller OK
IRQ 3 Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller OK
IRQ 3 NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet Adapter (NGRPCI) OK
IRQ 5 Creative AWE64 Gold 16-bit Audio (SB16 compatible) (WDM) OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 12 Logitech-compatible Mouse PS/2 OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK

I hope this helps, By the way sorry Imperion I did try unplugging all of my USB devices

Richard

[BipolarBill]

Have you checked BIOS setup or not?

[RichDem]

I have even tried disabling all of the USB entries in the bios and then booting into windows, then restarting and re enabling everything in the bios. What I do not understand is that according to windows everything is working perfectly.

Could it be that the USB on the motherboard has just failed?

Richard

[BipolarBill]

If it fails in two different operating systems, try clearing CMOS. If that fails, you have a rare motherboard failure. Read here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~doniteli/index27.htm

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