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    USB port stopped working

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by pepi18, Jul 6, 2011.

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    pepi18 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,

    I bought a new laptop recently (specs in my sig) only a few weeks old and out of nowhere one of the USB ports stopped working. I was in the middle of playing a game (Bad Company 2) at the time, and my mouse was plugged into the port. Then suddenly my mouse movements stopped and I traced the problem to that USB port after trying another with success.

    I can't think of any reason why this would have occurred. The laptop is for arguments sake brand new, and I have not carried it anywhere with me; it has been sitting on my desktop on top of a notebook cooler since I got it.

    Any ideas? Is it a driver or hardware related?

    Help would be much appreciated and I hope this is in the right forum. Thanks!
     
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    pepi18 Notebook Consultant

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    Ok, I did a bit scouring and found a solution that worked pretty easily.

    I uninstalled the USB drivers from Device Manager and then restarted my computer. Upon restart the drivers were automatically reinstalled and all my USB ports work now.

    SOVLED
     
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