Sounds dead to me.
The only other time I see this is when the unit was plugged in before the drivers and I have to boot safe mode and remove the unknown items. http://www.usbman.com notes how so I won't duplicate it here.
But it does sound dead or the cable failed.
Bob
I would appriciate someone's help - i'm completly out of ideas...
I'm trying to get my Clie to work on my windows XP home machine. I install the desktop software (with the cradle unplugged from the USB), plug in the cradle to my USB, hit the hotsync button and the only thing that happens is that the "device not recognized" dialog box pops up. I do this repeated times with diff. USB ports, and even with different computers. I also downloaded a patch from Clie's site which was supposed to address the issue of Clie's not being recognized by Windows. I've also gone into the add/remove hardware and tried to add it that way. No dice. If someone has ANY suggestions AT ALL please let me know...I'm about to throw it out the window. Thanks

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