{"id":774,"date":"2008-04-04T13:49:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T13:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=774"},"modified":"2008-04-04T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T13:49:49","slug":"usb-devices-not-recognized,-\"unknown-device\"-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"USB Devices Not Recognized, \"Unknown Device\" Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Bill Posters at http:\/\/forums.whirlpool.net.au\/forum-replies.cfm?t=576507<\/p>\n<p>I finally solved my USB problem after researching for a solution for 3 hours.<\/p>\n<p>here&#39;s the excerpt from Bill&#39;s post:<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot; Pretty much exactly what happened to me.  6 USB ports on one pc all stop working.  Devices all work on other computers. (XP Pro)<\/p>\n<p>After going thru mobo manual, looking for driver updates, un-installing devices &amp; re-installing, troubleshooting each port etc etc, I was considering power management options, BIOS tweaks etc then found the following.<\/p>\n<p>SOLUTION:<\/p>\n<p>Power off pc.  Remove AC power cord from pc for a few seconds. Plug back in &amp; reboot.<\/p>\n<p>Something to do with residual capacitance\/current I am led to believe. Seemed too good to be true when I read about it, but it sure worked for me.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, I can&#39;t believe it&#39;s this simple...felt like an idiot wasting 3 hours for such simple solution. The same solution I knew and had used before for other types of problem. <\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Bill Posters at http:\/\/forums.whirlpool.net.au\/forum-replies.cfm?t=576507 I finally solved my USB problem after researching for a solution for 3 hours. here&#39;s the excerpt from Bill&#39;s post: &quot; Pretty much exactly what happened to me. 6 USB ports on one pc &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}