you have to boot your computer into BIOS setup and make sure that all USB devices are enabled. how you do this depends on the computer vendor. you need to look in your computer's manuals to see or contact their technical support.
Herb...
For some reason my computer is not registering that i have usb hardware installed. IT does not appaear in the device manager... does any one know how i 'tell' the computer that the USB is there...

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