I bought myself a Toshiba laptop a few years ago and it is a real lemon. I recently had a lot of hardware issues with it that I can’t work out myself.
Here is my question: my USB ports do not work nor do they have power. How can I fix this?
Recent developments: My hard drive crashed a little while ago. I replaced my old hard drive with a new Hitachi 80Gb 7200rpm thing. Since then, not one of my three USB ports work. Would a mobile laptop HDD suck up that much power?
I’ve checked the BIOS – Yes my USB ports are enabled.
I don’t get any power in either openSUSE or WinXP so I don’t think it is an OS issue. I’ve done a uninstall/reinstall the drivers for WinXP to be sure.
Everything else about the computer works beautifully at this point. Just the USBs.
Any help would be much appreciated