well i rooted my laptop hard drive somehow. suspect is norton 360 (dont ever get this)
anyways took it officeworks to fix. i travel had to leave it up to the folks. 3 weeks later it comes back.
2 usb ports dont work.
one gets power, but refuses to stay id'd. flashes up once then disappears
the other wont recognize anything. get a code 43. though it does rarely fix it sometimes.
it doesnt seem to hold the drivers
reinstall didnt work. had alot of left over files for some reason. so im dbaning it hoping itil turn into a virgin?
are my plugs fucked.
any suggestions?

hahaha. no brick through the window. but i did punch and judy him one night
well its a 2 yr old lappy. runs prety much everything bar b3. not quite ready to brick it.

I got punch and judy too, but now I'm singing the Sooty and Sweep theme song.

look in device manager to make sure all the drivers are installed. My motherboard actually has 2 USB controllers, one in the intel chipset, and a separate lot in another NEC chip.

Also most decent laptops have a restore feature that restores them to the way they were when you first bought it, try that? It's basically an image of the hard drive that overwrites anything currently on it so make sure you back up first.

look in device manager to make sure all the drivers are installed. My motherboard actually has 2 USB controllers, one in the intel chipset, and a separate lot in another NEC chip.

Also most decent laptops have a restore feature that restores them to the way they were when you first bought it, try that? It's basically an image of the hard drive that overwrites anything currently on it so make sure you back up first.

I was thinking chipset drivers myself when I read the op.

well i didnt. the folks did. i left it there they were trying to be helpful i guess. back up was corrupted. rooted wouldnt load in safe mode. wouldnt load passed the win logo. thinking it had something to do with the anti virus i had at the time.