Have you ever encountered when you try to plug your USB 2.0 devices (flaskdisk or external storage drive) on your windows xp system and all of a sudden it spits out an error saying "unknown device" error?
What the f#$k! Thinking this was working before... I tried everything except my last resort of formatting my windows system again (duh...i'm to lazy to create a system image on my system). Taking a break just to clear my mind out of frustration, it got me thinking, if this happens to me, somewhere out there someone has also encountered this problem before...and probably fixed it.
Well, well, well...lo and behold a quick search on google came up a lot of hits...after eliminating every post in which I have already done, I came across technophobe's post on his experience. Given the non-techy fix, it worked for me!
To re-iterate on how to fix it:
- Shutdown your PC completely and disconnect the power cord at the back of your power supply. For laptop users, remove the battery pack also.
- Try to power it ON just to make sure it doesn't have any residual power/current left.
- Reconnect everything and boot up your PC.
Viola! Enjoy your fully working usb 2.0 devices again.
My tip: Google is your friend, use it just like I did...
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