Possibles here, the USB hub is bad or the connection is dirty. The quick fix for a dirty contact is to clean those, use a Q-tip with alcohol and swab them down and check results. Also, be careful to view those same contacts for any peeled, or otherwise damaged contact. If the hub is bad, no fix at all, though you can still check them for presence in the h/w device manager from the control panel area. If any USB attention flags are present, like yellow or red, report back. Since, your PC USB ports are OK, this is probably only that bad hub at fault at monitor. You can buy a "satellite hub" attach it to a rear PC USB port and use that in place of now bad monitor located one. These are of small cost and are easily available, just buy a decent one.
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I have a Gateway FPD 1785/1985 monitor with 4 usb ports. They worked great for quite some time, but recently stopped working. I really have no idea why. I've checked all the connections and it's plugged in, etc.
Does anyone have any ideas? I really don't know what else to do. And I sure miss these usb ports.
I have Windows Vista and everything else is working fine. The usb hub on the front of my Gateway computer works. Thank goodness since that's now the only accessible one for me to use.
Melissa

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