Poncho´s Blog

Having messed up my USB drivers, doing things that shouldn't be done on Windows I ended up with the following problems: 1. USB Hubs (specifically a Belkin hub first, and all including internal notebook hubs) were not recognized as such, I made them work as USB Root Hubs installing the driver manually, but with problems. 2. Kindle Fire not recognized as a external drive, the was no way I could find a driver for it. 3. Livescribe Echo Pen not being recognized, even installing the driver manually with an error 257, and connecting and disconnecting by itself every 5 to 10 seconds. Being desperate, I decided to remove all Universal Serial Bus controllers from the "Computer Management" or Device Manager in Windows, using the reasoning, how worse can this be. To my surprise, nothing was now recognized, even when I re-installed the USB Host Controller with the original Chipset drivers from Intel/Lenovo. Then, something magic happened, I found an article in the Microsoft