USB & Disk Devices No Longer Working

[KyleGoch]

I have a T400 with Server 2008 Enterprise. All of the sudden I can no longer use anything plugged into my USB ports. In device manager it just shows 2 Human Interface Devices for my keyboard and mouse, with the yellow warning sign next to the name. The error given is this:
“Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)”

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the devices and get nothing. I uninstalled reinstalled the chipset drivers and root USB hub, also to no avail.

Oddly enough the USB keyboard and mouse work just fine in the BIOS or when I boot from a CD. But as soon as I start Windows the devices stop working.

I also have the same problem when I plug in USB thumb drives or external hard drives. The show up in Device Manager but I cant do anything with them in Windows Explorer.

Any ideas? it’s defintiely driver/software related. just not sure where or how.

[JonusC]

This might help –

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

[KyleGoch]

That was one of the tools I used in troubleshooting. I ended up never finding an answer, so I just went back to Vista x64.
Thanks, though.

[JonusC]

Sad to hear that. Must of been some wierd driver problem! Sorry. Peace.

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