device recognition

So one day I was playing a game, hoi4, and I paused it shut my computer off, and left for a few hours. I come back my computer shut but it's still running, I open it and my screen and computer is frozen, so I hard shut down. When the computer is on next thing I know none of my USBs will work...

Ok, so I'm not sure where exactly to post this, but I'm in need of some major help with my Zune! I love my Zune but I've given up unless someone can help. My original Zune purchased in 2006 finally gave up. I purchased one on eBay, new in box of the same kind, just different color. My old...

I just performed this update on my HP notebook and now I cannot connect my Samsung Galaxy J5 phone to the notebook. The notebook always recognized the device before, not now.

Hi, I was hoping someone could help me, i have a Lenovo Ideapad 510 laptop with windows 10 64bit. The laptop is only about 3 months old. It has 2 x USB 3.0 slots and 1 x USB 2.0. I have recently bought a USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure and i can only connect it to the USB 2.0 port. If i connect...

Running underWin7 SP1. I'm not sure just how iTunes gets involved here, so please bear with me. My daughter used to have no problem downloading photos/videos from her iPhone just by making a USB connection, and presumably iTunes was what noticed the connection; however, the activity resembled...

Hi guys, First of all, let me say that I am a very tech savy person. I've been using windows since the 90s, used almost build computers, and code websites.. so most of the 'basic' trouble shooting I have done already. I have spent hours trying to find fixes for these problems. I have a 2012...

Since I upgraded to Windows 10, my pc doesn't see or recognize either of my iPhones. Before, with Windows 7, the iphone would show up in File Explorer so I could copy photos to my PC. My iPhone is recognized by iTunes, and another computer I have that is still running Windows 7 recognizes it...

Hi I have 2 days ago upgraded from windows 7 home . all went smoothly but now no matter what , i cant get Windows to recognize any of four usb flash drives . Mouse, keyboard , printer , phone cord all connect thru usb and work fine but not flash drives .What can I do? Message from windows is "...

Hi there! I use Wacom tablet for a thousand years. My computer knows my tablet more than well. It is plugged usualy to the most distant USB on computers back. Sometimes I have to plug it to the other USB. And after that (every time) there is a bubble-system-message with little animated icon...

I try to back up my files using Windows 8.1 file history in System and Security>File History. The default drive is to one letter belonging to a USB stick. I am not able to select another drive. The USB stick does not have the storage required to save my back up files. How am able to change...

So I just upgraded my Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, and before I upgraded my computer recognized my Turtle Beach X12's as a headset and a microphone. When I plugged in my headphones it only used them as a headset and didn't work as a microphone. How can I make...

My Acer Aspire A7600U-UR24 came with windows 8. I made a recovery drive by choosing "create recovery drive" in windows 8. After making the drive i installed windows 8.1 from DVD. Some time later I tried to restore it back to factory with my recovery usb. Every time I try I get "windows cannot...

I have a few usb ports on this computer - 2 on the front panel r driven via the std usb connector and 2 r driven via the USB3 connector on the MB which provides USB2 & 3. When I plug a certain device into the std ports I get the device not recognized. When I plug it into the usb3 ports...

I have a 1tb HP External HDD that has a lot of files on it. The drive worked fine until yesterday and when I plugged it into the USB port it activated as "CD Drive (G:) HP Launcher". I used explorer and was not able to locate any of my files. There are 2 files showing: 1. HPLauncher.exe 2...

I have an Alienware 18. Today tried updated to windows 8.1, it failed on the first try, stopping at 83% after rebooting and almost finishing the installation. I retried installing, it did the same thing, however, this time (i accepted my defeat) when signing back in, my wifi was not recognized...

I use windows 8. Recently I have bought an external hard disk[toshiba] with USB 3.0 support. I have one port in my laptop with USB 3.0. My every hardware drivers are up to date[Including my BIOS]. The problem is when i connect hdd to 3.0 port, what i get is 2.0. [There's a light that show up...

Hi After having a failed attempt to go back to an earlier restore point (the computer just sat there for ever saying that it was restoring the registry, so I finally shut it off) my computer wouldn't boot so I tried several attempts at automatic repair from the disk etc. I started getting a...

I have an HTC touch Diamond phone running Windows Mobile 6.5. I tried to Sync it with Windows 8 the other day for the first time since installing Win8. When I connected the phone to the laptop (USB) the first time WMDC opened the setup window then after configuring the options I was able to...

Hello, I just installed an All-in-one USB 2.0 Card reader.. But after booting up the computer, it shows up to be an unknown device... I think it's driver related.. I lost the CD though... Does anyone know how to fix this? This picture below looks exactly like it.. Link Removed The site says...

I have a Kensington Trackball (the original grey square 4 button model) which works great and which I absolutely love. I have had it about 10 years now and it still works perfectly fine. Kensington got a lot of grief (and rightly so) for not providing driver support when migrating it from...