PC help with USB error message

[hammersley]

Ok folks - I know enough about PC's to be dangerous - can someone out there help me with this:



I'm new to XP and not a PC pro - but have a problem with

my new PC. It has a P4, 2. 53 with 512. It now takes over

a minute and a half to load, once the XP window goes blank and loads teh rest of teh package. It didn't do that when I

purchased it a week ago. I looked at the device driver

window, Hardware Profiles, and have the Yellow backed

exclamation point - that I'm told is trouble. This is a

USB 2 mass storage device. I uninstalled it once and the

time dramatically improved, but when I reboot the PC, the

problem is back. HELP..... I have NOTHING attached to the PC - No USB devices now. I'll uninstall the device, and BANG, about 1 minute later, the screen blinks, and there it is again????

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[TURBOs4LIFE]

Well you need to know if your USB is built in to the motherboard or if its a USB PCI card. If its built in to the motherboard you can go into system bios (by usually hitting F1 while computer is loading up) and turn USB support off. If its a PCI card you can remove the card and then try restarting the computer to see if that will help with your slow loading and error message that you are getting. Hopefully you will have a PCI card and if its bad you can go out and just buy another to replace it with. If its in the motherboard you may have to have a complete motherboard. I know this cause mine did the same as yours and I had a bad PCI card.

 

[hammersley]

Thanks

This fix appears to be beyond me , and since I have a warramty - well out she goes.



THanks



JT

 

[99guy]

Hard to troubleshoot long distance, sounds like your sending it back anyhow. What I can tell you is that even without your current issue Windows XP Home is slow (BY Design, say thanks Bill ). We have used it on P4 Dell laptops and others that came loaded with it OEM. You will see a BIG increase in speed by either moving to XP Pro or Win2k Pro if you have that option. It's a shame to see good hardware punished by poor software. Just my $. 02.