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  • Saturday, November 07, 2009 3:08 PMG. K.Sarkar Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    After repacement of hard disc windows vista has been reinstalled from the reinstallation DVD supplied along with the laptop. The PID is not recognised by windows service centre.
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  • Saturday, November 07, 2009 4:59 PMSpiritX Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi,

    They do go bad occasionally. Try this :

    Control Panel - Device Manager - click in the blank area - then VIEW - Show Hidden Devices

    Now look everywhere EXCEPT USB Controllers for your device and if you find them (may have more than
    one of each) under Disk Drives you may have several - RIGHT CLICK and UNINSTALL for all instances.

    Now move to USB Controllers - Right Click - UNINSTALL everything in the Category one at time EXCEPT the
    Category itself - REBOOT. This will refresh the USB driver stack.

    Here is the similar procedure in XP, Vista's is the same except we need to clear the specific device if present.
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310575

    Do the above 1st.

    USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all
    USB devices that you previously used. Run it Options and check the 1st three choices to see if any are there.
    You can remove all instances of the drive and then reboot again.
    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

    also if needed later :

    Start - type in Search box -    Windows Disk - find Windows Disk Management on list at top -
    Right Click - RUN AS ADMIN   look to see if there is a drive letter(s) assigned or a conflict.

    ----------------------------------------------

    This might be helpful to determine if incorrect driver is loading.

    DriverView - Free - utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver
    in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name,
    company that created the driver, and more.
    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html

    Hope that helps.
    Rob - Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.
     

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  • Saturday, November 07, 2009 4:59 PMSpiritX Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi,

    They do go bad occasionally. Try this :

    Control Panel - Device Manager - click in the blank area - then VIEW - Show Hidden Devices

    Now look everywhere EXCEPT USB Controllers for your device and if you find them (may have more than
    one of each) under Disk Drives you may have several - RIGHT CLICK and UNINSTALL for all instances.

    Now move to USB Controllers - Right Click - UNINSTALL everything in the Category one at time EXCEPT the
    Category itself - REBOOT. This will refresh the USB driver stack.

    Here is the similar procedure in XP, Vista's is the same except we need to clear the specific device if present.
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310575

    Do the above 1st.

    USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all
    USB devices that you previously used. Run it Options and check the 1st three choices to see if any are there.
    You can remove all instances of the drive and then reboot again.
    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

    also if needed later :

    Start - type in Search box -    Windows Disk - find Windows Disk Management on list at top -
    Right Click - RUN AS ADMIN   look to see if there is a drive letter(s) assigned or a conflict.

    ----------------------------------------------

    This might be helpful to determine if incorrect driver is loading.

    DriverView - Free - utility displays the list of all device drivers currently loaded on your system. For each driver
    in the list, additional useful information is displayed: load address of the driver, description, version, product name,
    company that created the driver, and more.
    http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html

    Hope that helps.
    Rob - Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.