Fried Motherboard?

[Mitchell]

Hi there.

Yesterday, I was doing a reinstallation of windows xp pro on my IBM thinkpad t42 because something made the old install go bad. that's fine.

I used a flash drive to transfer some drivers over to it from the lenovo website, as the ibm site links me there. fine.


Today I tried to watch a movie from my usb hard drive and nothing. no power, no "device connected" chime. Nada thing. I also tried using the same flash drive to transfer the drivers and it does the same thing. These same devices work on windows 7, vista and xp on different computers

Doing some research online, I'm suspecting my mobo may be fried. How is that possible when everything else works?

Oh, and device manager says that all the usb controllers and root hubs work fine and the drives don't show up when I plug them in under Hard drives and usb controllers.

Could anyone get back to me quickly with a solution please? I am very frustrated that this doesn't work.

 

[Mitchell]

After I did a reboot seeing if usb is eneabled in the bios, I didn't modify anything, they just start working again! what the? they die all of a sudden, and miraculasly come back to life after a reboot? Could anyone explain this please?

 

[Dngrsone]

After I did a reboot seeing if usb is eneabled in the bios, I didn't modify anything, they just start working again! what the? they die all of a sudden, and miraculasly come back to life after a reboot? Could anyone explain this please?

It may be something as simple as a loose connector or perhaps an intermittent wire.

 

[G3N1US!]

I've had that happen to me before, where i blew 2 of the same comps when i was 14.
I decided to try to modify the insides of the comps on carpet :S
If it WAS fried, there would be multiple beeps, with about 2-3 seconds in between each one. They will not stop.