What I did was unplug the peripherals from each of the two USB hubs, then I re-inserted the naked hubs  one at a time.  I checked device manager to see if they installed themselves, which they did. Then I shut it down and plugged in the peripherals.  On startup, everything lit up like a Xmas tree and worked just fine.  I can't understand why unplugging everything screwed it all up, but I am delighted how easy it was to fix once I had the time to think it through.  Even the little USB icon reappeared in the systray.


>On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 18:21:01 -0400 joseph marty wrote:
>
>I have Win Me in a Dell 8200.  On 9/29 they were working
>fine when I took the system apart to put some new furniture
>in my home office.  Today I put the system back together,
>and on bootup the LED's on the two USB hubs did not light
>up, and all the peripherals attached to the hubs don't
>work.  I tried using Goback to rewrite the drive to the day
>I took it down, 9/29, but that didn't work either.
>
>Win Me is not loading a little icon in the system tray
>which allows you to turn off USB  devices before you unplug
>them.
>
>

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