This may not be the exact cause of you problem but try this.
On newer motherboards and 98me it is possible to put the USB ports to sleep
when not needed.
When it is time for them to be active, they won't wake up.
To fix this, go to MY COMPUTER|Properties|Device Manager|Universal Serial
Bus controllers
and click on the host controller. Once there you should see an option for
disabling "sleep" mode.

Winston


From: "Lee Haffner" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:04 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] USB ports


> I have a 750 mhz amd computer and I tried to install my scanner and a
message came up saying it could not find my usb, it must be turned off in
the bios. It used to work and I never turned it off. I installed a pci to
usb card and got the scanner going but i would like to fix the 2 usb ports
that are on the mother board. It is a gigabyte GA-7VX Mother board. Lee
Haffner Thanks for any help you can give me

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