USB problem in laptop...

[Phaesimvrotos]

Well... Usually I charge my cell from the laptop... I went to eat and came back today and when I checked it my sis that was at the laptop told me that the mouse stopped working... Tried other USB ports and reboot and still I get the unknown device message everytime... Mouse works fine because I checked it at the desktop... The cell at the other hand it's almost the same when I plug in in it charges but if I press anything on the window that pops (at the cell) so I can transfer data etc I get the unknown device message again... Any ideas? :/

[Xuvial]

Reinstall USB driver/controllers? Sometimes hiccups like that can happen with the USB controller.

[Phaesimvrotos]

Same... It installs the drivers on its own after I uninstall the USB and it still recognizes the mouse as unknown device... And it doesn't work of course...

[chaley]

In my experience when this kind of thing happens it's because the port(s) got damaged. It is possible that it's a software problem, but if you're 100% sure you eliminated a software problem then that would lead to the controller itself going bad. Besides replacing the motherboard you could always get an expansion card with USB ports on it.

[Phaesimvrotos]

Meh... A friend told me that because it still sees it even as unknown device then it's not a hardware problem and to check for chipset drivers updates and to see in BIOS if its USB 1 to turn it 2 or something though I can't find anything like this there... It's getting extremely annoying