All my USB devices are suddenly not recognize

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roberto - Feb 4, 2009 at 11:17 PM
CyborgCop Posts 48 Registration date Tuesday August 25, 2009 Status Member Last seen September 10, 2009 - Aug 25, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Hello,

Yesterday, my desktop running Windows XP suddenly decided not to recognize any USB devices -- external drives, flash stick, iPod, printer, although it still recognizes a USB mouse. "The notice claims that "one of the USB devices attached to the computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it" However, the devices are all good on other machines, so it's something with Windows. Any suggestions for how to resolve this problem? This isn't a reformat the drives problem since they work on other machines (my laptop runs the exact same OS and software ... no problems there).

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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Feb 4, 2009 at 11:30 PM
This is what Microsoft has to say when USB ports fail:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/817900/usb-port-may-stop-working-after-you-remove-or-insert-a-usb-device

Try their suggestions and get back to us with your results. Good Luck
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Tried all of this and still nothing. Any other thoughts?
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CyborgCop Posts 48 Registration date Tuesday August 25, 2009 Status Member Last seen September 10, 2009 12
Aug 25, 2009 at 11:30 PM
you might be overloading the USB port. Try to load less and see if that works..
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