The port wouldn't do anything with an hdd. Out of interest, I plugged in my camera, obviously a powered device. This time, the pc beeps, recognising it's been plugged in.
Device manager shows the port as an unknown device with no driver installed. Auto update doesn't find the driver. Vista doesn't recognise the driver on the system disc that came with the pc, although the only ones in the folders are for 98,2000 & xp.
Any ideas at all?