I recently had a new hard drive added to my computer. The old drive was left in as a slave drive, and a new installation of Windows XP Home SP2 was installed on the new drive. The first thing I did when I got my machine home was to make sure windows was totally updated. Since then, none of my USB devices will work. When I plug any of them in, the computer will make the usual "bling-blong" sound, but nothing else happens. It makes the usual "blong-bling" sound when I remove a device. I am currently using a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0, a Brother MFC 5440CN, and a TV tuner device. None of them work at all. I tried to go into the Device Manager and update the drivers on the USB controllers, but Windows was unable to find an updated driver. So, I uninstalled the devices and re-booted the machine. I then went into the Device Manager and updated the drivers on the "Unknown Devices" that were there. This worked and Windows successfully installed drivers for all six entries in the device manager. However, after rebooting, I am still having exactly the same problem. There was no change at all.

greatdaneboy, you could try looking at this article...........

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=892050

I hope that fixes your problem; and this problems appears to happen to some machines and not others.

~Ana

Double check that you've installed the drivers that go with your devices, if there were any