Dead USB ports
After suffering numerous problems of keyboard locking up, prgrams crashing not being able to run scandisk etc I decided it was finally time to rebuild my hard disk from scratch. After backing up everything I needed to CD I inserted the supplied installation / recovery disc and at the prompt told the pc to go for it!
Everything with the installation went well, no more nasty little programs running in the background that I couldn'd kill etc but now I have another problem:
On the back of the PC there are 4 USB ports. 2 are dedicated (or labelled anyway) for the mouse and keyboard. The other 2 I use for the speakers and scanner.
What has happened though is that nothing I plug into the USB ports like Scanner or USB flash drive seems to be recognized by the system despite reinstalling the respective drivers several times. I know the devices and cables themselves are fine because they work normally with my new notebook.
The pc is a Pentium II or III with 20 Gb HDD, 128Mb RAM operating under Win98 second edition.
Any clues greatly appreciated.