rob0

[on some Windows Vista 32 set up] Just registered purely to post thanks to all contributors to this thread. Easily the most useful on the issue. I wanted a simple, non-technical, non-registry fiddling fix. This may not be as sustainable as tweaking with the aspi's and the asciis, but it's worked. (at least for now) The simplest solution from the thread seemed to be turn off the power (and take out the laptop battery) for a while. So this is I did. In my case it was about 2 hours. It might work sooner but I was doing something else. And so this timescale worked for me. So thanks. Especially to those pioneer posters (PPs? who replaced motherboards. So if your usb tells you it's feeling all malfunctioned and unrecognised, maybe it's a cue for you to go and do something else for a while. Not forgetting to disconnect the power and the battery of course. Btw does this problems affect desktops? I guess that would just be power down for a while then. Or Like our friends in 'The IT Crowd'[uK TV series] suggest "Have you tried turning if off and on again?" Thanks again community.