Anyone really, really, *really* good with driver issues + hardware detection?

[Stanley Burrell]

Nothing I can connect to my computer via USB that doesn't have drivers already installed for attachable USB devices are detected by my personal computer. Microsoft, upon destroying a rootkit hidden in drivers, completely fucked up my capability of recognizing new devices using any of my USB ports.

I'm pretty certain; from a lot of sudden search engine redirects, along with registry errors randomly rendering visited sites undeletable, that I've got a TSDD or some other System crap or similar garbage on this computer, but ... yeah, that's whatever.

Right now, the most important thing in the world, as we know it, is helping me understand how to get my device manager functioning exactly as it did from day one, without any formatting.

OS: Vista Home Edition.

HELP!!!!!!111111111111111112

[Stanley Burrell]

Also, any USB driver software I install isn't detected (other than just lingering as files) and I have tried every manner of manually detecting them for Windows to recognize, but there has been epic levels of failure.

[Latrinsorm]

Re-installing Windows is awesome. My advice is to buy a $30 external hard drive to back up your files on, probably a USB one, and... er... hmm.

[Warriorbird]

Online critical file backup. Reinstall Windows.

[Stanley Burrell]

Re-installing Windows is awesome. My advice is to buy a $30 external hard drive to back up your files on, probably a USB one, and... er... hmm.

I believe it should recognize an F: flash or zip hub with some of the basic stuff installed, but I have several games that are one-time installations I paid for and they're detected by an online client, which probably accesses a registry. There is a lot of crap, since this is my non-work computer that I would have to mine and I do enough of that on a non-playtime basis as is.

[Warriorbird]

I believe it should recognize an F: flash or zip hub with some of the basic stuff installed, but I have several games that are one-time installations I paid for and they're detected by an online client, which probably accesses a registry. There is a lot of crap, since this is my non-work computer that I would have to mine and I do enough of that on a non-playtime basis as is.

Steam should be multi use.

[Stanley Burrell]

Steam should be multi use.

Oh. It definitely is.

[4a6c1]

BLOW IT UP

[4a6c1]

(hope that helps)

[Stanley Burrell]

BLOW IT UP

So before I realized just how much iguana bedding was settling as dust on the insides of crap, hopefully not my butt, my computer went into turbo mode for the first time and I thought someone threw some kind of powdered wood grenade at me.

[phantasm]

This just reminded me of how happy I was when USB first came out. Thank god I don't have to type in and sort out all those damn IRQ #'s anymore.\

[phantasm]

Do you have any exclamation marks in device manager?

[Stanley Burrell]

Do you have any exclamation marks in device manager?

lol. Nah, those and their software components were deleted during help-from-India.

[phantasm]

Uninstall all the host controllers in devmgmt.msc. reboot. Find ps2 keyboard/mouse just in case.

[radamanthys]

He probably lost his host controller driver. What windows you have? You might just be able to do a repair to rebuild core files (no formatting required).

That or grab another computer with the same OS and copy over a bunch of .sys files from c:/windows/system32/drivers folder. If you want, I can zip up mine and email it to you. good way to start, as it's pretty damned easy. Copy over whatever is missing, and all. Probably usbuhci.sys. But that's just a cursory guesstimationing of the probledicament.

[Archigeek]

I'm generally the last guy I would ask computer questions, but did you try a reset to 4-5 days ago? Pretty easy to do with Vista.

By the way, Comcast sure was munged up in my region. Was weird: couldn't access anything with a browser, but could still connect to AIM and Full Tilt. All better now... good luck Stanley.

[Drew]

Thank god I don't have to type in and sort out all those damn IRQ #'s anymore.\

Ahh IRQ hell. I remember fondly trying to get my joysticks to work so I could play wing commander. IRQ #4, I hate you.

[Latrinsorm]

Uninstall all the host controllers in devmgmt.msc. reboot. Find ps2 keyboard/mouse just in case.The funny thing about ps2 is I always need a ps2 to usb converter to even plug them in to computers these days. Also how it seems like they should be really easy to blind line up correctly in ps2 ports, but they never are. So frustrating.

[Stanley Burrell]

He probably lost his host controller driver. What windows you have? You might just be able to do a repair to rebuild core files (no formatting required).

That or grab another computer with the same OS and copy over a bunch of .sys files from c:/windows/system32/drivers folder. If you want, I can zip up mine and email it to you. good way to start, as it's pretty damned easy. Copy over whatever is missing, and all. Probably usbuhci.sys. But that's just a cursory guesstimationing of the probledicament.

I dir /w/p'd everything and usbuhci is still there. I have all my USBs status quo and still there: Just absolutely nothing new showing up and/or detectable through any method I've tried ever since Microsoft totally Milgram-experimented me into deleting the portable devices hub. I can add legacy software and the only thing that shows up as an external, when searching for a camera, goddamit, is still my printer whose drivers were installed before I got F'd in the A. F'D IN THE A.

[radamanthys]

Follow this particulate shiz, for great justice: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Make sure to click through to vista cleaning instructions, too and tear ass through those.

If it still is treating you like a Habanero buttplug, I'll throw some more sick tech beats your way. If my beats prove lame, you might just roll back or repair- it'll save your shit, but nuke the offending bitch. And by nuke I mean rebuild the parts of the registry and driver repository that the virus corrupted. Like a boss.

[Stanley Burrell]

Follow this particulate shiz, for great justice: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Make sure to click through to vista cleaning instructions, too and tear ass through those.

If it still is treating you like a Habanero buttplug, I'll throw some more sick tech beats your way. If my beats prove lame, you might just roll back or repair- it'll save your shit, but nuke the offending bitch. And by nuke I mean rebuild the parts of the registry and driver repository that the virus corrupted. Like a boss.

Crap Cleaner did not put the lotion in the basket. Hit me up with some beats, young dunny.

[g++]

I would try a registry cleaner as well. If the Indian fellows got you to delete a driver instead of uninstalling it correctly you may have marooned about a jazillion registry keys that make no fucking sense which could cause these types of problems.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\UsbStor

Specifically see if that is there and not set to 4.

[Stanley Burrell]

^

There was no set value. When CTRL + F for "usb" anything in regedit that's a USB has its registry default with no value.

I might take apart my old camera, but I'm going to need ridiculously tiny Phillips heads and other junk. The thing stopped working after the zoom rings jammed. Man.