error - USB device not recognized

[Guest]

Hi

I have a Dell Inspiron 600M with XP SP2.

Lately, I've been getting a popup window from the systray that says "USB
device is not recognized." When I click on the balloon, it opens a window
that says "the location of the device is shown in bold type"...it shows
"unknown device".

The problem is that currently I have a mouse and printer attached via USB
(both have been installed for quite some time), but I often get the message
when both USB ports are empty. It's tends to popup at various times during
the day. I have found a pattern.

I haven't installed any new USB drivers recently.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Scott

 

[Guest]

I have the same model and just recently (within last 2 weeks) have received
the same message intermitantly (but often). I tried restore back severla
weeks and no difference.

 

[Guest]

I should also mention that I have no USB items connected so I don't
understand why it is trying to connect to something???

 

[Guest]

An update...

After looking some more in the archives, I saw a possible fix of opening
device driver and removing the failing device. There was an item labeled as
"unknown device". I removed it and restarted. The device is listed again.
The window now comes up fairly frequently...even with NO usb devices attached.

 

[S.Sengupta]

'General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP'
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q310575&ID=KB;EN-US;Q310575

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[Guest]

Thanks, but nothing in that article pertains to my problem. It was all about
having known USB devices not working...I don't even know what device is "not
working"

 

[Guest]

jpldenver: If you happen to find a fix outside of this newsgroup, would you
please let me know...I'll do the same. Email me at (e-mail address removed) and
we can keep in touch since we both have a similar problem. Thanks. Scott

 

[Guest]

i tried unistalling all the hub roots and usb contoller drivers and rebooted.
the pop-ups seemed to stop for a while but have returned so I don't know
whether it really had any effect.

 

[ultra_classic]

Hi

I have a Dell Inspiron 600M with XP SP2.

Lately, I’ve been getting a popup window from the systray that
says "USB
device is not recognized." When I click on the balloon, it opens a
window
that says "the location of the device is shown in bold type"...it
shows
"unknown device".

The problem is that currently I have a mouse and printer attached via
USB
(both have been installed for quite some time), but I often get the
message
when both USB ports are empty. It’s tends to popup at various
times during
the day. I have found a pattern.

I haven’t installed any new USB drivers recently.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Scott

Greetings Scott,
Had a similar problem. :roll: You stated "It’s tends to popup at
various times during the day". I traced it down to a bad mouse cord.
Evidently at times I would move the mouse and cord in such a way that
it temporarily disconnected thus triggering the error message. You
can’t tell by looking but if you manually manipulate the cord you
might induce the error. Or simply try a different mouse.

Best of luck,
ultra_classic

 

[Guest]

Hi Scott

My problem started yesterday I have a DEll Latitude D500 with windows XP sp2
and the error message is driving me crazy evry 20 seconds or so

 

[ddash]

I think this is a known bug in Dell's bluetooth device. But th
problem is that you cannot switch the bluetooth off without als
switching your wireless off. It is really bothering me too but
cannot figure it out too. I stumbled upon the following problem whic
seems to offer a solution but it doesn't work for me. Eve
uninstalling bluetooth doesn't help. Though, when the syste
recognises bluetooth for some time during the start, I don't get th
annoying popups.

I am giving the link for you guys to try out
http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2004/09/bluetooth-drivers-for-dell-truemobile.ht
Please mail me any fix if it works for you, at (e-mail address removed)