Hi everyone, as i am not that technically minded there is proably someone who will laugh when they give me the soloution to this problem!!! you guessed it I am a newbie brief histroy: had an sony mp3 player attached to usb port in the front of the PC had wireless connection throught netgear running clicked on a link to go to another page and the 'cannot find page' message came up... tried a couple of time and nothing happened. A this point I noticed that the two icons hat showed that the wireless connection was working had dissapeared and i had in fact no internet connection. thought this was odd... tried to reboot still not working. called net gear support... they said plug the wg111t adapter into another usb port and see what happens i did and nothing happened... no 'windows has found new hardware' or anything... tried all four ports and nothing... thried the adapter in the laptop ( which i am using now ) and it all worked. so now tried to uninstall all USB item from device manager and reboot the PC found new hardware on start up for the host controllers and the USB ROOTs but still they dont actually work... I p[lug my printer into the usb port and something that was working yesterday now comes up with 'hardware not recognised. the hardware service support line is closed till monday now and you are my only hope in getting this sorted before spending money caling premium rate number... any replies warmly welcomed big brother is watching

How do your USB controllers appear in Device manager?

it says##'this device is owrking properly' on both host controller on and USB root hub... its almost as if there is no power going to them or something wierd like that. big brother is watching

anyone got any ideas as to a fix for this... please please help big brother is watching

I'm having exactly the same problem, but mine started when I tried to hook up my Mac laptop to my HP printer wirelessly through my PC. Couldn't get the mac to recognize the printer as the correct model, so I plugged it in directly (USB). After installing the driver on the mac, replugged the USB into the PC and then NOTHING. No USB to any of the 8 ports I have. Tried everything including chipset reload, new bios upgrade, uninstall/reinstall USB drivers..... any clues folks? If the MB is fried then it's only the USB part.