1. The motherboard or USB drivers are out of date, not installed or the ports died.
2. The USB device was dropped and is now dead.
Bob
I succesfully set up a Belkin 7050 Wireless usb adapter on my Windows 2000 pro PC and connected it to my wireless network fine. For some reason the Belkin Monitor software suddenly stopped functioning so the PC no longer sees the usb adapter and I can't connect to my router. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling many times with no success. On installation everything looks ok until it runs the Belkin wireless monitor which just seems to unload straight away. I don't get any error messages to indicate a problem but it just doesn't see the adapter when I plug it in. I would assume a hardware fault if the wireless monitor wqas running.
I was running the latest virus software with daily updates up until it stopped working. Any ideas as to what might cause this?

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