advent laptop problem

cd02

hi, i've got a advent laptop thats about 4 years old and worked fine til recently the bios battery died.

i replaced it and everything seemed fine but now the usb port wont pick up anything plugged into it.

its sending power into items (such as my infra mouse lights up) but it doesn't attempt to even install them..

any ideas.

its running windows me, all up to date and nothing in the bios helps..

Lord_Chris

does your mouse come with any drivers or did you download any drivers before?

Gadge_2

I had problems getting ADVENT drivers some time ago, the windows update service managed to get them,
I did have a trackball mouse and had to use a cordless mouse, It displays all the lights but would not move the pointer! possibly much the same problem

anyway when I looked at the mouse settings it was still for the trackball mouse and needed changing to the cordless one

hope this helps

spurs1234

Just Backup you files and restore the machine with the original disks id put money on it will work

Browntoa

does the USB show as working in Hardware ??

under control panel, system, then Hardware, then device manager then expand the USB Controllers to see if any have a yellow exclamation mark

no need to look at a restore at this early point

cd02

sorry spurs you'd have lost your money !!

i've installed all the drivers for my mouse and everything, plugged the mouse into the port and the bottom is lighting up but the laptop isn't trying to install it, so power is going through the port but its like its not picking anything up, so what i'm trying to say it power is transfering out but nothings going in :O(

cd02

Brown, its there and present without any problems... just not working :O(

espresso

Is there a Plug&Play option in the BIOS that needs to be enabled?

Browntoa

I take it you have checked that it is enabled in Bios ??

Gadge_2

I agree with EXPRESSO and check the BIOS settings,
as you did lose the BIOS battery, it may have gone back to default settings.

another option could be to check and update the BIOS,
but this is pretty extreme, and is not for the faint hearted especially with a ADVENT

cd02

checked the bios, nothing in there that helps.. and would upgrade the bios but haven't got a clue where to get the up date from