Windows 7 no usb 2.0

I just installed a fresh Windows 7 onto a new MacBook Pro. Neither of the usb ports are registering as usb 2.0 and all devices (3 different usb drives) are getting usb1 speeds. Anyone ever run into this problem?

This is after you've installed the Boot Camp drivers? Have you tried deleting the USB devices in Device Manager and rebooting (so Windows will install the drivers again)?

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How do I install windows from USB on Macbook pro 3,1 ?
My Superdrive is far from super anymore, So I managed to make an extern drive with both Snow Leopard Partition, Lion Partition (Since I thought Boot Camp 4,1 would bypass my problem), and Time Machine partition, Since I got 1. USB drive that works.
- My general issue is that Boot camp Refuse to see the USB drive - (Many "how to"´s though show how they install windows perfectly through the USB port, but they use airbooks!, and somehow the Macbook will not ?)
I fix that issue with >> rEFIt <<, that suddenly makes it possible for the Mac to see the USB drive, and partitions.
Which was very strange since I could use an extern HD with the whole installation to start up wipe the whole disk, and then use my extern drive with partitions to install Snow Leopard and get everything as before with timemachine. Very smart with timemachine, but very lucky that I have a extern drive that runs the whole system and that I made the partitionsdrive before. DVD-drives are the past!
Point: So the original system could see the Snow Leopard installation USB disk, but boot camp cannot find the USB drive ?????????
After rEFIt I booted and then I got this error:
Starting bootmgr.efi
Error: Unsupported while loading bootmgr.efi
I read it could be a problem with the Windows software, so I purchased an extern DVD drive, Used Disk Utility to make an image (.DMG), then used another program to convert the .dmg to .ISO.
Then downloaded a trialversion of vmWare fusion, and installed windows from the iso. Everything worked brilliant, except and that is why I want to use boot camp, Running windows in another program while running the mac system is a little hacky and slow.
Point: Nothing is wrong with the windows software, and windows runs fine.
I then downloaded the Windows DVD / USB Tool, reformatted a USB drive as Master Boot Partition, MS-Dos Fat partition, then after lots of struggling got Vmware, windows to recognise the USB drive. And installed the windows software on the USB drive, as all the walkthroughs recommend.
Then I tried for "fun"! to just install windows form the extern USB drive, and with rEFIt it will see the drive and start to do something, but then when it starts to boot, the screen just turns into black and nothing happens, and you can see the drive does NOTHING. (I think it is because I only have 1 USB drive and the Extern DVD drive does not get enough power, but again the mac refuse to see the USB drive unless it is a Snow Leopard installation USB-drive!
Well trying to install Windows Ultimate 64 Bit, which worked great in vmware, because that program installed from the .ISO file that I had on the desktop, but trying with Boot Camp did not get anywhere, what kind of **** program is this boot camp anyway!?, but then I try the new USB disk with windows made from windows, thorugh rEFIt, it sees the disk and then starts and then I get this ERROR:
rEFIt - Booting Legacy OS
Starting legacy loader
Using load option ´USB´
Error: Not found returned from legacy loader
Error: Not found from LocateDevicePath
(x 9 times)
Error: Load Error while (re)opening our installation volume
The firmware refused to boot from the selected volume. Note that external hard drives are not well-supported by Apple´s firmware for legacy OS booting
(Hey Apple please send out a updated firmware that fix this issue?!)
So how do I do it ? - or is the only option to fix the partition running the system from the extern disk. Format the whole drive in 2 from the "bottom" and install windows and then afterwards install Mac on the other partition ? Or just run windows on the mac and forget about mac software ? What a stupid solution...

There are strings in the pliist file to add other Macs so that you can use some USB-DVD drives.
This is 5 page thread, so a little more 'meat' to it:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3410900?start=60&tstart=0
And on PC booting Windows from a USB DVD to do the install is usually a piece of cake, sometimes you just need to specify that USB in the BIOS boot order and sometimes select via F12 (or another Fkey) and that is it.
What you have here seems to be everything and everyone is excluded unless there is a mac-model device ID string that specifies yes. An unnecessary hurdle.

IPhone 3G plugged into PC(Windows 7) 'USB is Not Recognized' and unable to restore; stuck on 'Connect to iTunes'

iPhone 3G plugged into PC(Windows 7) 'USB is Not Recognized' and unable to restore; stuck on 'Connect to iTunes'
I was in the process of putting another firmware for my iPhone(an .ipsw via. itunes) and the house had a power cut. The computer was in the middle of restoring the iPhone but never finished. The apple logo came on and then came onto the 'connect to itunes' screen. My sim card was in but there is no option to slide for emergency. When I Plug it into my computer, a message pops up saying that the 'USB Device Not Recognized', I've tried to plugging my iPhone into my laptop and other Computers but the same message occurs (all windows 7). Other articles say that the error is with the iPhone, I need help!! Can anybody offer some advice on what to do?
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HT4407 When installing Windows 7 using Bootcamp, I get message: "Need 64-bit Windows Installation USB drive or DVD." I thought my install disk was for 32 or 64 bit. What does this mean?

When Installing Windows 7 using Bootcamp, I get message: "Need 64 bit Windows installation USB drive or DVD." What does this mean?

It means you need the 64 bit Version of Windows on a USB stick or DVD.

Can't boot from windows 7 usb installation media

When trying to boot from windows 7 usb installation media no efi boot option availiable. Using "boot from efi file" option whith each and every .efi file on installation media results in a message saying "The selected boot device failed. Press <Enter> to Continue".
USB installation media created using original windows 7 iso image and couple diskpart commands(resulting in clean flash storage with a single active primary partition) plus simple copying of the iso image's contents on usb flash.
Enabling/Disabling SecureBoot doesn't have any impact whatsoever.
Installation boots from aforementioned media successfully when CSM enabled, though i would really prefer installing Windows 7 in uefi mode. Which microsoft claims Windows 7 supports.
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
PS: my disappointment in this particular HP notebook is unspeakable. Aside from issue of the current topic, It keeps defaulting to windows boot manager when dual-booting windows & linux no matter what i do, and windows 8.1 Pro is constantly BSODing whenever i try to run fullscreen games on high-performance GPU whith every graphics driver i could possibly install (including both hp's own and amd's). Found silly workarounds for both of these issues, however still hate HP treating it's customers that way.

Booting from USB 2.0 port or DVD with SecureBoot disabled gets me to a screen saying "starting windows", just before the actual setup begins and then system simply hangs. Still unable to install. Thanks for your suggestion though.

How to Create a Windows 7 USB install disk

If you want to install Windows from a USB drive, you'll need the Boot Camp Assistant (version 4.0.1) and a MacBook Air. I don't know why it won't let you do it on other Macs and MacBooks (the option still shows up, only it's greyed out) - if you made it work on anything other than a MacBook Air, let me know how you did it. So, besides that, you also need an empty USB drive and a genuine Windows ISO file.
However, if in your case the Windows USB creation option is greyed out, this is what you can do:
You create the Windows installation USB, using one of these two ways (I used the first one):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd535816.aspx
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
You create the Windows partition with BCA.
In System Settings, you choose the newly created BOOTCAMP partition as the startup disk and restart your Mac.
Have your Windows USB inserted before your Mac restarts.
As soon as your Mac boots from the BOOTCAMP partition, it should start loading Windows Setup from the USB drive.
I have an early 2009 MacBook and these steps worked for me. It's a workaround... but it works. Let me know if it worked for you.
* If none of this works for you, there is another workaround, using 3rd party software (rEFIt). However, I don't recommend using it, unless you know what you're doing.
* Disclaimer - This info comes as is and I do not guarantee that it will work for you. Nor do I guarantee that it will not cause any malfunction to occur on your Mac computer.

you restart your mac and as soon as it boots up (usually you hear the dvd making a noise, or the gong sound), you hold down the Alt key until you see a screen that shows you all the partitions/drives you can boot from. you select the boot camp one, while the windows usb installation disk is inserted and it should boot up from the usb. it worked for me, but I can't guarantee it will work for you too... depending on your model. mine is an early-2009 macbook.

64-bit Windows Vista USB synchronization

Is Palm developing a fix for 64-bit Windows Vista USB synchronization? Or is Bluetooth the only option?
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Hi, and welcome to the Palm Community Forums.
Strongly doubtful, particularly since Palm OS devices are on the way out, and Vista has been around now for a few years. If no 64 bit USB drivers have been developed by now, it's a pretty good bet that they won't be. (It is not Palm's software, anyway. A Japanese company called Access owns Palm Desktop and Palm OS.)
If you have a TX, please also read the stickied threads about 64 bit synchronization...you can also use Wi-Fi. It's much faster than Bluetooth.
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Boot from windows 7 usb failure

Hello,
I'm trying to install windows 7 on my 15" mbp running OSX lion.
It's a end 2011 series.
I have a working bootable USB created with the "windows 7 usb dvd tool"
I'm pretty sure it works because i'm able to boot from it on my windows xp pc.
Using bootcamp, i made a 75Gb windows partition,
but wen the mbp restarts after making the partition i only get a black screen saying
"no bootable device insert boot disk and press any key"
I've tried taking the usb out, and putting it back in, no succes.
I've hit every key on my keyboard, no succes.
Also, I can't use the usb as a start up disk, because it isn't in the list (in the preferance panel)
I hope someone can help me with my problem.
Funny how the only trouble i've had with mac in 8 years, is installing windows.
Thanks,
Louis

Not sure what you are doing wrong but I and many others have done this without any problems. In fact installing Windows is almost a prerequisite if you are going to have a Mac as your main and or only computer.
Try deleting that partition, using Boot Camp Assistant, and try doing it again. Make sure the Win 7 USB stick is in a USB port.
Not sure but I might remember that I needed to use the DVD drive to install Windows. The Mac just wouldn't look to the USB ports for any bootable device once boot camp rebooted the system.

Where is the Native Windows XP USB/Display Support?

My Config:
Windows XP Professional
ASUS K8N-E, AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 2GHz, 1GB RAM
PNY NIVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB AGP (Force Ware 91.31, BIOS 5.43.02.39.51)
Cinema HD 30" display
This is my first Apple product and it amazing good apart from the "PC Compatible" BS under the product listing.
Where is the native Windows XP USB and display support for this $2,000 display? And no, I'm not satified with a SourceForge.net project with one developer working on WinACD (all credit to his efforts, I'm a software developer too!)
Tell me the last time you bought a piece of hardware that didn't come with driver support? Is this the first and last Apple product I buy?
-bonzo3671

I hear what you are saying but frankly that doesn't cut it - I'm an embedded sw engineer and if you are saying that a company like Apple can't take the time to create a Windows display INF file, like they did in 1997, then something is clearly not right.
Check the file "applevdo.inf" here:
http://mirror.apple.com/Mirrors/AppleSoftware_Updates/US/DOS-Windows/DOS_and_PC_CompatibilitySW/
They created an INF file for Windows 95.... but not for customers running "recommended" Nvidia Quatro FX's cards
running on XP and ultimately Vista?
This thread is far from over....
For those interested, here's my ACD EDID (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDID) info:
===========================================================
Monitor
Windows description......... Apple Cinema HD Display 30-inch
Manufacturer description.... Cinema HD
Manufacturer................ Apple
Plug and Play ID............ APP9232
Serial number............... CY6290A8UG1
Manufacture date............ 2006, ISO week 29
EDID revision............... 1.3
Display type and signal..... Digital
Sync input support.......... n/a
Screen size................. 640 x 400 mm (~32")
Power management............ Active off/sleep
Color characteristics
Display gamma............... 2.20
Red chromaticity............ Rx 0.640 - Ry 0.343
Green chromaticity.......... Gx 0.292 - Gy 0.611
Blue chromaticity........... Bx 0.146 - By 0.074
White point (default)....... Wx 0.313 - Wy 0.331
Timing characteristics
VESA GTF support............ Not supported
Horizontal scan range....... 30-100kHz (est.)
Vertical scan range......... 48-60Hz (est.)
Video bandwidth............. 333MHz (est.)
Extension blocks............ 1
Timing recommendation #1.... 1280x800 at 60Hz
Modeline................ "1280x800" 71.000 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 803 809 823 +hsync -vsync
Timing recommendation #2.... 2560x1600 at 60Hz
Modeline................ "2560x1600" 268.000 2560 2608 2640 2720 1600 1603 1609 1646 +hsync -vsync
Standard timings supported
1280 x 800 at 60Hz - Apple
2560 x 1600 at 60Hz - Apple
Raw EDID (3)
00: 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF 00 06 10 32 92 46 61 00 02
10: 1D 10 01 03 80 40 28 78 28 FE 87 A3 57 4A 9C 25
20: 13 50 54 00 00 00 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
30: 01 01 01 01 01 01 BC 1B 00 A0 50 20 17 30 30 20
40: 36 00 81 91 21 00 00 1A B0 68 00 A0 A0 40 2E 60
50: 30 20 36 00 81 91 21 00 00 1A 00 00 00 FF 00 43
60: 59 36 32 39 30 41 38 55 47 31 0A 00 00 00 00 FC
70: 00 43 69 6E 65 6D 61 20 48 44 0A 00 00 00 01 C3
Display adapter
Adapter description......... NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT
Adapter device ID........... 0x00F110DE
Display settings............ 2560x1600, 32bpp

IMacs can boot Linux or Windows from usb stick

iMacs 21' can boot Linux or Windows from usb stick? from Firewire 400 or 800 hdd/ssd? from USB HDD/SSD?
May boot fromCD/DVD/DVDDL in internal DVD DRIVE, too?
Exist Blu-ray drives able connect on Thunderbolt slot on iMac 21'?

Here is the memo of the steps I followed. Hope this helps.
<Create VHD image in temp folder at local drive>
diskpart
create vdisk file=C:\Temp\Win2go.vhd maximum=20480 type=fixed
select vdisk file=C:\Temp\Win2go.vhd
attach vdisk
exit
<Create partition in VHD, format in NTFS and assign drive letter "O">
diskpart
list disk
select disk n （n is a number of VHD）
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick override
assign letter=o
active
attribute volume set NODEFAULTDRIVELETTER
exit
<Execute "DISM" utility in Windows DVD and extract installer image to VHD>
G:\sources\dism /apply-image /imagefile:G:\sources\install.wim /index:1 /applydir:O:\
** "G" is drive letter for Windows DVD
** "O" is drive letter for VHD partition
<Write boot program into VHD>
O:\windows\system32\bcdboot O:\windows /f ALL /s O:
** "O" is drive letter for VHD partition
<Detach VHD>
diskpart
select vdisk file=C:\Temp\Win2go.vhd
detach vdisk
exit
<Format USB thumb drive in NTFS>
diskpart
list disk
select disk n （n is a number of USB thumb drive）
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick override
active
exit
** "E" is drive letter for USB thumb drive
<Write loader into boot sector>
G:\boot\bootsect /nt60 E:
** "G" is drive letter for Windows DVD
** "E" is drive letter for USB thumb drive
<Copy VHD file to USB thumb drive and mount>
copy C:\Temp\Win2go.vhd E:\
diskpart
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exit
<Write boot info into USB thumb drive>
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** "F" is drive letter for VHD partition on USB thumb drive

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Hello mmarti,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Please ensure you are following the Boot Camp installation guide, as you should be selecting the partition named "BOOTCAMP" when you are at the Windows installer screen. See page 6 of the following PDF:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1636/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_ 10.8.pdf
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How do I install Windows from USB?

I have a 2011 MacBook Pro. I replaced the optical drive with a second hard drive. I have tried the following methods to install Windows.
Installing from an external optical drive: I created a Windows 7 install disk. The windows installer does not start. All I see is a blinking cursor. The disk is recognized when I hold option/alt at startup, but when selected it hangs at the blinking cursor.
Installing from a flash drive: I burned the image to a USB flash drive. The windows installer does not start. The the disk is not recognized when I hold option/alt at startup.
Do I have to do something to enable USB startup? Is there another installation method available?
Thanks.

On MBPs that came with built-in Optical drives, BC Assistant modifies the NVRAM settings and sets the boot option to be the Optical drive. Removing the Optical drive breaks this logic and causes a lot of problems. Modifying the Bootcamp info.plist allows USB creation workaround, but does not allow the NVRAM modification. This is derived by BCA using the Model Identifier in System Profiler.
Your situation is similar to Need help installing Win8.1 from USB on MBP. or Unable to Install Windows 8 on secondary Hard Disk.
The only solution I know is to move the drive that needs Windows to the main SATA connector, install Windows and then move the drive back to the Optibay.
If you have two Macs, one of which have the original HW configuration, than using Winclone is another option by installing it on an "unmodified" MAC and then cloning it to the "modified" Mac.

Setup Problem Airport Express / Window XP/ USB printer

Hello everyone.
I bought an Airport Exress yesterday (802.11n) and try to hook up to USB printer (Samsung CLP 300) but nothing is happening.
Existing Setting
-My base wireless device Linksys (Wireless-G 2.4 GHZ) hookup to the cable modem and computer (Window XP) picks up a base singal thru Linksys WMP54G. Currently all my internet connection works great. The Linksys security setting is WPA-Personal. Also, the address is "assigned by DHCP."
Propsed setting is that I want to achieve. I have tried for serveral hours but it did not work.
-I plugged AX to AC outlet and connected USB to samsung clp 300.
AX sttus lights is Flashing amber. There is no wire connection to internet router.
-Airport Utility does not pick any signal.
-I also tried installing a Bonjour but it did not find any printer.
-Nothing appears on linksys network site survey except my base Linksys.
Please help~ Thank you very much.
Message was edited by: mooly

My first suggestion is to always remove whatever encryption you are using on your router before you set this up. Temporarily take the encryption off of your Linksys router by going through the GUI interface in a web browser.
In your post, you do not mention if you have used the Airport Utility yet. Have you? This should be loaded onto your computer and you should run it to see if your computer can see the AX. If you can't, then take some ethernet cable and hook it directly to your computer. Run the Utility again.
If you can see it, then follow these instructions:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1731?viewlocale=en_US
It is important that your router if broadcasting its Network Name, or SSID, and that in the Airport Utility that you choose "Join an Existing Network"
Once you unplug the AX, test to see if you can print to your printer. If not, plug your printer into the AX through its USB port. Run Bonjour for Windows. While connected, see if you can print a test page. If so, then disconnect your computer from the AX and try another print job.
The AX takes a minute to establish a connection, so if it starts blinking yellow as soon as you unplug it from your computer, wait a bit. If it turns green, then you should be good to go.
Put your encryption back in this order: you must know what the key code is and you must enter it into the AX first; save; AX will start to blink yellow; secondly, go back to your router and re-enter the same key; save. Wait a minute, and see if the AX turns green.
Try printing a test.
Hope that works. Some printers are tricky with the AX.

How to install Windows without USB or DVD drive on 2009 MacBook

Problem
I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 fitted with both an HDD and SSD.
Obviously I had to remove the DVD SuperDrive to fit in the HDD into the Optical Bay.
This is awesome big and quick storage, but you can't use it for BootCamp anymore, BootCamp Assistant says. Because it needs the optical drive for installing Windows and it won't accept it via USB.
The good thing is, that you don't need the Bootcamp Assistant for installing Windows.
So:
I have Mac Os:X Mavericks working from my SSD (which I fitted to the HDD bay for increased speed)
The HDD is installed in the former optical drive bay, with one MacOS Ext partition for Mac storage and the other one being NTFS with Windows.
Solution
The solution is a little bit tricky, needs either a virtual Windows machine or a real one and it involves removing and refitting your hard drive, but on an older MacBook Pro like 2009s that originally came with an Optical Drive there is no other way. afaik.
Step 0.5
Backup your Data
Step 1
Partitioning your desired drive
You can do this using Apples Disk Utility if you have installed either Tuxera NTFS or NTFS 3G. Or you do that in step 3 in Windows.
I'd recommend a size of at least 30 GB, Windows 7 alone takes up around 20 GB
Step 2
Remove the hard drive and connect it to a windows machine
Afaik the next step has to happen in Windows with full hardware access. If you want to use a virtual machine i.e. VM Ware or Parallels you need to connect it via USB as an external device, otherwise it won't have full access to the partitions. Obviously you can use a real Windows computer too. Still you're gonna need to remove the drive from your Mac.
Step 3
Re-format and set "active" partition state
Format desired partition with NTFS, quick format works fine. (just in case)
Open your Windows 7 Image (or Disk) and Copy the directories "Boot" and "Sources" as well as "Bootmgr" onto the partition
Make the Partition bootable:
Using Windows XP, Vista, or 7, open CMD as Admin (Windows key + R, type CMD, hit Enter)
Enter the following commands, (replace X with what applies to your hard drive):
diskpart
list disk
select disk X
list partition
select partition X
active
exit
X:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 X:
Exit and shut down
(Source and additional images: http://www.instructables.com/id/Install-Windows-7-without-USB-or-DVD-without-upg ra/)
(If this is somehow possible using Mac Tools, please let us know!)
Step 4
Fit the HDD back into your mac
Just that.
Step 5
Install windows
Start your Mac and immediately press and hold the alt (option) key until you can select the other drive to boot windows.
Install using advanced installation to select the same partition.
Step 6
Clean up
After the installation press cmd + r (in windows) and type and run msconfig
Click to the Boot tab.
Click 'Windows Setup (\windows)', and hit Delete.
Click OK.
Click 'Exit without restart'.
And lastly, delete the ‘Sources’ folder from your hard drive root (this will free up 2-3gb).
Final Step:
Install the Mac drivers (Get the right version here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634 )
Recommendation: Use Winclone Pro to backup your precious installation.
On a footnote: This article was a big help to me: http://www.instructables.com/id/Install-Windows-7-without-USB-or-DVD-without-upg ra/)

Have you tried resetting the PRAM? http://gigaom.com/2011/07/26/when-to-reset-your-macs-pram-and-smc/
Which Windows version are you trying to install? If I remember right, you can't use windows 8 on these older machines.
Other than that it's hard to say what could have gone wrong. I can only suggest going through the steps again carefully and making sure everything worked the way it should.
Have a look at this article too for a slighly more verbose instruction on making a drive bootable: http://www.instructables.com/id/Install-Windows-7-without-USB-or-DVD-without-upg ra/

USB Device Not Recognized on Windows 7 - USB mouse

I have a 4 week old Inspiron 1545 with Windows 7 Home premium that has developed an error: USB errors while trying to install a Microsoft USB mouse on this Laptop. Interestingly, my Microsoft USB Mouse installed perfectly first time and worked for about 2 weeks, and then failed. In looking at the system restore points, it tells me that there have been two driver updates to the USB environment since the unit was shipped from Dell. I wonder if an automatic update from Microsoft has somehow inadvertently updated or replaced a Dell factory driver.
Two nights ago I spent 45 minutes with Dell tech support doing remote control bug fixing on this laptop. They werent able to fix it (in the time allowed). They downloaded at least one of their newest drivers onto this machine and rebooted it - and they seemed pretty savvy - but still not working. So I went ahead a did a system restore to a point about 10 days back because I could see that a USB driver would be affected (as shown in the system restore menus), and I would like to compliment Microsoft on this very cool functionality!
At this point, I've unplugged the USB mouse , used the Device Manager to delete the 'unknown device', and done a system restore back to what I suspected was a working point. But still getting a 'Device not recognized' warning every few minutes, and still don't have a working mouse. I don't want to have to do system restores back to pprevious dates, although I suspect this is one solution.

Hello,
I just wanted to let u know, I had this same issue for about 2 weeks. Basically what happened was a bad install of my AMD Chipset drivers. When I attempted to upgrade, the install didn't go all the way through.
I then restarted my system, and BAM! No Mouse or Keyboard functionality thru USB.
Even when I went into SAFE MODE the Mouse and Keyboard were not functional. The only time they worked was when the computer first attempted to start, BEFORE windows loaded.
So, this means that your issue is a software problem.
I thought it was some other software that I installed, and ran a restore session, but that wasn't the issue. Still no functionality.
I even tried removing my CMOS battery, to reset it, since some people said that had solved their problems...Still nothing.
I then read other forums around the web using my Android phone to try and find a solution, only those solutions were no help.
I was also advised to run: MSCONFIG and Hide all Windows programs and then stop every other driver, source from loading (of course if my mouse and kb worked, I would have tried that).
I had even read that because I was using USB, that I should try using a PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard connection.
It took me 2 weeks to get the correct PS2 adapter that worked, which would essentially allow me access to my system again...
I Purchased a USB A Female to PS2 (MDIN6) Male Adapter (for Mouse) from http://www.SFCable.com
This my friends, was a lifesaver. I only have one PS2 port on my system, so I used my mouse to try every option I had previously read about. Of course you cannot type because the keyboard doesn't work, so you need to know the location of the folder where
the programs you are trying to run are.
So, a little after I got back into my system, and I closed down all programs, the warning screen came up that ALL of my USB Ports failed and could not be updated. I even Uninstalled every last USB port from the System Properties and restarted, and still
that didn't work.
I had forgotten that during the time when this problem arose, there was a failed install of my AMD chipset drivers, so luckily I had not deleted the source file and I tried to reinstall, and VIOLA! I'm back up and running and my USB ports are restored
and everything is working!
I hope this solution is able to help other people out there.
Thanks,
JE - [email protected]

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