Issues with my mouse and usb ports.

[fish]

Hello lately while taking a nap my usb corded mouse decided to stop working on my laptop for reasons I don't understand this.
It seems to recognize it as.. something in the device manager but the mouse won't light up or be properly updated with logitech drivers as the updater tells me that no devices are connected.

This is very problematic because it's the only computer I have while I am here in england and I find laptop track pads very frustrating and awful(especially when it comes to games I play)

So the first thing I did was I dug out another mouse only to find that this mouse did not work either. I unplugged the the mouse and tried plugging my external harddrive into the same usb port and found that it worked fine.

I also tried plugging it into the other three usb ports to find the exact same issue.

This confused me and I decided maybe restarting would randomly fix my problem for me. Every time it is about to shut down I get a blue error screen that says something along the lines of "USB_CODE_DRIVER" error

I googled this error and looked for threads where people had similar problems all night but unfortunately nothing I do seems to work.

I gave up and tried a system restore to a few days ago which looked like it was working until after telling me it was done and starting up again it gave me the familiar blue screen. Anyway, it did turn back on again and my files were indeed rolled back to a few days ago before this was a problem of mine but unfortunately the problem persists and my mouse still won't connect.

There is a computer store in a city which will take about a day trip to get to where I'll probably have to leave my laptop and that kinda sucks. Especially since I sort of need it for work and the only days the computer shop seems to be open are days I am working.

so uh
Don't suppose anyone can help me with this?

[fish]

okay my friend suggested I turn off the laptop and take out the battery for 5 minutes

for whatever reason

it worked

computers I will never understand

[rtil]

great job!

also that may have worked because removing the battery wipes the bios memory, forcing it to re-detect devices on the motherboard. so it was like you were turning it on for the first time as far as the bios was concerned.

[BluPhoenix]

zenny was probably involved