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    Sony SA3 - First USB port wont recognize mouse - Please help me

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by laxinchili, Jan 17, 2012.

  1. laxinchili

    laxinchili Newbie

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    Hi guys, I just bought an SA 3.
    I have this logitech mouse with a usb reciever. Whenever I plug it into the first USB 2.0 Slot (the one right below the power jack), nothing happens. The computer doesn't even make the sound that something was plugged in, and I refresh the device manager page nothing happens.

    It's really weird because the mouse works fine in the 2.0 slot right below it, and also in the 3.0 slot.

    I'm pretty dumbfounded... the slot isn't broken because it works with my phone... it just doesn't want to recognize my mouse... that one slot..
    please help I have no idea what's going on here.
     
    laxinchili, Jan 17, 2012
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    laxinchili Newbie

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    I have a hunch that when I plugged it in, since I was installing other things, the plug and play driver didn't install correctly and for some reason it is permanently disables on that USB port... c'mon computer geniuses... any ideas?
     
    laxinchili, Jan 17, 2012
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    ngvuanh Notebook Deity

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    Restore back to factory to see if there is a difference.
     
    ngvuanh, Jan 18, 2012
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    Update - so I really want to get to the bottom of this...
    I took out the Win 7 Home that the computer came with and put in Win 7 Ultimate :)D)
    After a brief scare in which I'd get a restart loop after the install (which I fix by going into command prompt and typing "bootrec /fixboot")..
    It did the same thing... so weird.. the port works fine with other things (such as my phone for driver transfer, etc,), but will not work with the receiver....
     
    laxinchili, Jan 18, 2012
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