USB to Serial Converter. Working fine - now Disabled?!
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From: Sibine on 23 Apr 2010 02:38 Bizarre issue last night - I'm working away configuring a Cisco router when bham! the whole laptop crashes. Its a HP with Windows XP Pro on it. Frustratingly I have to power off and reboot. Since the reboot my USB to serial converter just doesn't work anymore. In Device Manager it shows up with a Red X on it. When I go into it it clearly says "This device is disabled. (Code 22). Click Enable Device to enable this device. When you try and enable it, it just says Windows was not able to enable this device. Bizarre as it was working and now not - makes me think Windows has disabled it because it was the cause of the crash but can I switch this back on somewhere? In the registry perhaps? I work in IT all day, everyday but even this had me stuck! Any help appreciated. Simon
From: SC Tom on 23 Apr 2010 07:19 "Sibine" <simon.jessop(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:0526b1bf-8300-4fbf-ab7b-11966e2c3f93(a)x3g2000yqd.googlegroups.com... > Bizarre issue last night - I'm working away configuring a Cisco router > when bham! the whole laptop crashes. Its a HP with Windows XP Pro on > it. Frustratingly I have to power off and reboot. > > Since the reboot my USB to serial converter just doesn't work anymore. > In Device Manager it shows up with a Red X on it. When I go into it it > clearly says "This device is disabled. (Code 22). Click Enable Device > to enable this device. When you try and enable it, it just says > Windows was not able to enable this device. > > Bizarre as it was working and now not - makes me think Windows has > disabled it because it was the cause of the crash but can I switch > this back on somewhere? In the registry perhaps? > > I work in IT all day, everyday but even this had me stuck! > > Any help appreciated. > > Simon Try reloading the driver for the convertor. You may have to uninstall it first. Not that unusual, really. I've had that happen to me on my Dell and HP/Compaq notebooks. A simple reload of the drivers does the trick. -- SC Tom
From: Swifty on 25 Apr 2010 04:27
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:38:18 -0700 (PDT), Sibine <simon.jessop(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Bizarre as it was working and now not - makes me think Windows has >disabled it because it was the cause of the crash but can I switch >this back on somewhere? In the registry perhaps? In the past I've resorted to devcon.exe to re-enable devices where the Windows GUI said that it couldn't be enabled. Since I have devcon.exe in my own "tools" directory, it presumably was not an integral part of my XP system, so I probably downloaded it from the Microsoft website; probably last century. -- Steve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk |