Usb port freezes windows xp

I plug one in on this computer and the entire computer freezes. As soon as it is unplugged everything starts working again.

I have been using these USB drives since I have had the computer, suddenly the other day when I plugged any device into the USB hub the computer freezes. These devices work fine in other computers. I have used the device manager to uninstall and reinstall the USB Port Drivers but the problem is not resolved!!!!! Please Help. This thread is locked.

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 3. Report abuse. After that I plugged everything in to try to uninstall and redetect but at that time windows freezed again. Now the situation is: if I connect a device windows tries to recognize it and freezes, but if I deconnect, reconnect an deconnect again it exits from this state. As I said above something changed but Any other ideas?

What I'm most worried about is that it could be the usb ports to be burned. Unfortunatly I'm travelling so I can't test the devices on another computer or format and reinstall windows. Anyway thank you for your suggestions.

I have to forget my iPod for the moment but at least I'll be able to access my data on the external hard disk. I'll let tou know. Thank you!

No chance at all. I downloaded openSuse but the usb ports didn't work and the wireless card needed firmware, so I've not been able to connect to the internet. In this moment I'm at home and now I'm sure the problem is in the ports because I connected the peripherals to another computer and they're working. Maybe I could buy an usb cardbus but I don't know if it will solve the problem or it will affect any usb port in the computer, no matter if connected directly to MB or not.

What do you think about that? Really short of backing up the entire Drive or at least the data component and wiping the drive and performing a reload of Windows there Can be no certain answer one way or the other though personally I would tend to be looking at a hardware issue as the Open SUSE should have cured the problem if it was software related. But that's just a Best Guess Scenario. Thank you very much for spending your time helping me.

Thank you again! Any idea about what could have burned my ports? But my first thoughts would be some static damage possibly when assembled that cause some degrading in one or more IC's. These tend to work till they stop working and provided that you didn't over run them by placing a greater power demand on the USB Ports than they could supply they should be working. Uninstalled USB hardware in device drivers 2. Took battery out, waited 30 minutes, restarted 3. Ran the usbman test listed in a previous discussion of this topic and everything checked out.

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