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So this is now the second time this has happened to me.
First time I gave up and reinstalled Windows. I do not want to do this again.
I was trying to clean up a device driver, after unplugging the device, so I enabled device manager to view unplugged devices. While I was at it, I removed all the rest of the unplugged devices, figuring there would be no harm in a little "spring cleaning"
Well apparently I removed something I shouldn't have, as now EVERY USB device I plugin in gives a half-chime several times instead of the full chime (this is what usually happens with a broken device)... I'm talking flash drives, mice, keyboards, whatever. Doesn't matter. It doesn't work. Windows says no driver can be found - which is STUPID because these are standard plug and play drivers!
If I plug them into my USB 3.0 port (which has its own non-standard drivers installed), it works fine.
Is there some way to purge all the hardware drivers so Windows will automatically reinstall them, and thus fix this USB problem? I would really hate to have to reinstall again just because of this stupid problem.
First time I gave up and reinstalled Windows. I do not want to do this again.
I was trying to clean up a device driver, after unplugging the device, so I enabled device manager to view unplugged devices. While I was at it, I removed all the rest of the unplugged devices, figuring there would be no harm in a little "spring cleaning"
Well apparently I removed something I shouldn't have, as now EVERY USB device I plugin in gives a half-chime several times instead of the full chime (this is what usually happens with a broken device)... I'm talking flash drives, mice, keyboards, whatever. Doesn't matter. It doesn't work. Windows says no driver can be found - which is STUPID because these are standard plug and play drivers!
If I plug them into my USB 3.0 port (which has its own non-standard drivers installed), it works fine.
Is there some way to purge all the hardware drivers so Windows will automatically reinstall them, and thus fix this USB problem? I would really hate to have to reinstall again just because of this stupid problem.
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 9.04Intel Core 2 Quad4GB DDR3 RAMNVIDIA GTS 160M (1GB GPU)
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- MSI
- OS
- Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 9.04
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Quad
- Memory
- 4GB DDR3 RAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GTS 160M (1GB GPU)
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD Audio
- Screen Resolution
- 1680x1050
- Hard Drives
- 500GB SATA
