Hercules286
Well-Known Member
...so my laptop (Acer Aspire 3020) is acting... unpredictably whenever I insert a USB Mass Storage device in its USB port. Sometimes it works, sometimes it says "Cannot recognize USB, GFY. And oh, by the way, here's a driver for unknown devices that does nothing and only gets in your way" which isn't very nice of it. It does that with a variety of devices and so far I haven't been able to notice any pattern on what works and when.
So, I deleted all USB drivers from Hardware Manager and that worked... 2 times until it acted up again. So I deleted them again. No effect. Then I repair-installed XP (yea by the way it's XP SP2). That didn't work either.
So I installed another version of XP called Black Edition. That worked once, and then I got the Unknown Device bull again. BTW, I wouldn't recommend XP BE.
My GF says it acted up with the mouse yesterday, but when she restarted the PC the problem went away.
Any ideas?
So, I deleted all USB drivers from Hardware Manager and that worked... 2 times until it acted up again. So I deleted them again. No effect. Then I repair-installed XP (yea by the way it's XP SP2). That didn't work either.
So I installed another version of XP called Black Edition. That worked once, and then I got the Unknown Device bull again. BTW, I wouldn't recommend XP BE.
My GF says it acted up with the mouse yesterday, but when she restarted the PC the problem went away.
Any ideas?