USB Recognition Error

[Jaffee]

Hey guys.

So I got back from class Friday afternoon and sat at my pc, started working, and decided "I want music, and as such, I shall have music." I opened Winamp to play my standard "Jaffee is teh pwnage" playlist, but I got an error: "Bad Sound Driver." I looked at my USB Sound card, the lights were off on the controller that resides mid-cable. I reconnected it thinking it shut itself off for some reason.. no good. I rebooted the PC and immediately started getting new errors.

"USB Device Not Working Properly" or "USB Device Unrecognizable." USB stuff other than my mouse or keyboard was not working. I then remembered that my printer wouldn't connect to my PC earlier that morning. Realistically this problem has been going on since then. I thought nothing of it, figured I'd fix it later, and went to bed.

Much to my chagrin, I awoke Saturday morning to a PC with absolutely no USB recognition. My mouse was getting power to its LEDs, my KB defaults to all lights off when it is reconnected.. so I think power is getting to the devices, the system is not recognizing them, however. I reset the BIOS via the CMOS at the suggestion of a friend. No good. In BIOS the USB settings are typical, except while I have stuff connected, the "USB Devices Connected" section says "None."

I'm stumped. I'm an hour away from home with no car and bad road conditions, without my testing equipment and a quality work environment. I poked around the internet and found nothing, so I've been sulking for the better part of the day. It looks like I'll have to take it to a shop to at least diagnose the problem before taking any other steps, but I didn't know if anyone had any suggestions other than that. If you know anything I'd greatly appreciate the information.

Thanks in advance,

Jaffee

 

[WildHorse]

"Bad Sound Driver."

Do you have a disk that came with your computer or with your motherboard with the USB drivers on it? If you have that, you could reinstall.

When you look in Windows Device Manager does it have a yellow mark beside the USB Sound card? Does Device Manager indicate that the driver isn't right?
Within Device Manager, you first could click on a driver Rollback to see if you can recover the driver's proper operational status.
If that doesn't fix it, then try to update the driver from right there within Device Manager.

You also could download the driver from the website of the USB Sound card manufacturer.

Another idea is, maybe it's a hardware failure of the sound card?
You could do a close visual inspection of the card with a magnifying glass to spot any defective components, such as maybe burst capacitors ( since you've been rockin' way too loud!) or other obviously defective components.

Other remote possibility: do a thorough virus scan, maybe some virus is interfering with the sound card driver? Remote but still worth doing a good scan.

 

[Jaffee]

This isn't a sound-specific issue. This is ALL USB Devices: Mouse, Keyboard, Sound, Camera, Webcam, iPod, Flash Drives.. everything. It's not a software problem to my knowledge because the BIOS doesn't recognize the devices at all.. I'm at a loss. I don't have my stuff to test each component manually here at school so it looks like I'm taking it to a shop.. sigh.

 

[WildHorse]

Sorry.
Yes, I caught that it may not be a sound-specific issue which is why I suggested reloading "plug n play" usb drivers for your motherboard, using the installation disk that came with it.

Good luck to you. Sorry about your frustration.