I have exactly the same problem. The machine was booting normally but none of the USB ports were working at all. I resetted the BIOS and now the PC won´t boot because it stops at the "press F1 to continue, or F2 to enter the setup" message; how am I going to press any key if the USB keyboard is not detected? As the PC is out of warranty I bought a PCI USB-2 expansions card. No success. The BIOS doesn´t recognize the card. I wonder if a PCI with PS2 expansion ports will work.
Possibly your fix will work. I'm guessing it's a motherboard problem on the USB. I surrendered and bought another computer. I bought a whole computer for less than it would have cost me to replace the motherboard. and used some parts from the broken one to enhance my new one making it bigger and better. It also has PS2 ports even though I'm still using the USB wireless. Also has XP instead of Vista which I feel is a good thing.
I have an other problem. My wireless mice goes mad on the left button. Sometime i get one click, sometimes i get nothing and past a few seconds later i get a double-click. Does anybody knows a solution?
Problem solved. My Dell-BT-mouse have a defect and consumes also to many energy, batteries are within 4 weeks and accus are in only 2 weeks empty. Now i bought a cheaper BT laser-mouse from "ednet" (Notebook BT Laser Mouse Art Nr. 81111) and can recharge the accus over an usb-cable.
jjcastro
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May 3rd, 2009 17:00
I have exactly the same problem. The machine was booting normally but none of the USB ports were working at all. I resetted the BIOS and now the PC won´t boot because it stops at the "press F1 to continue, or F2 to enter the setup" message; how am I going to press any key if the USB keyboard is not detected? As the PC is out of warranty I bought a PCI USB-2 expansions card. No success. The BIOS doesn´t recognize the card. I wonder if a PCI with PS2 expansion ports will work.
TomSw
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May 23rd, 2009 18:00
Possibly your fix will work. I'm guessing it's a motherboard problem on the USB. I surrendered and bought another computer. I bought a whole computer for less than it would have cost me to replace the motherboard. and used some parts from the broken one to enhance my new one making it bigger and better. It also has PS2 ports even though I'm still using the USB wireless. Also has XP instead of Vista which I feel is a good thing.
Dayworker
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August 21st, 2009 17:00
Dayworker
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November 25th, 2009 16:00