Did you reinstall Win 98 SE?  If you made no other changes (i.e. mobo), all the USB support stuff should have been installed with Win 98.  What does device manager show under USB?  Any yellow exclamation points?  Check you BIOS to see if USB has been disabled.  Ports can go bad, but you don't really see it that often.



>I recently had to reformat my hard drive.  All went well until I tried to
>use my USB ports.  I use a hub, but now I cannot get a response from a
>direct plug in.  They do not seem to be working, and I am not sure how to
>troubleshoot them.
>
>I called the Dell Tech, and they told me to uninstall the drivers, and to
>refresh them.  It did not work and now the generic drivers are gone, and I
>cannot find any USB drivers.  I have an Dell Windows Intel Support Driver
>Ver. ADO diskette, but the driver search wizard cannot find the drivers on
>it.  I tried to find them on my Windows 98se cd, but my CDrom does not like
>the cd and it does not run right and makes noise.  Is there any internet
>site that I can get the drivers from?
>
>I run my Palm pilot and drawing pad off the usb hub.  Thanks in advance for
>any help you can give me.

>
>P.S.  Can USB ports go bad?
>
>


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