Re: HELP! - No USB on Dimension 9200

Tried all your suggestions and nothing worked.
In desperation I removed the cover and reseated the memory boards. It
worked! All USB devices work. I don't know if the memory board was the
problem but it works now.
Could it have been the memory board?
Thanks for your suggestions.

"William R. Walsh" <newsgroups1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:58tdl.535508$yE1.68566@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi!

With no communication by keyboard or mouse, I can't try safe mood or
troubleshoot start-up. Any suggestions?

This is just one reason why a computer should still have PS/2 ports. Less
to
get in the way, less to depend upon for anything to work at all.

Do you ever get control of the keyboard and mouse? Try getting into system
setup (F2 key) when you first turn the computer on.

If you lose control when Windows starts up, try booting with the keyboard
and mouse unplugged. Plug them in when Windows has settled down, this
might
spur it into detecting them.

You may have a bad USB port, a blown fuse (the ports are protected, using
what should normally be a self-resetting breaker--but that depends upon
how
badly it was overloaded and how many times) or a defective device that is
holding down the entire USB bus (have you removed all other USB items?).

Also try the keyboard and mouse on another computer. Maybe one of them is
bad.

William




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