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Originally Posted by firehawk1120
I know what ya said but I told you it was listed in the my computer device manager as OTHER device, NOT hp 1257 or whatever it is called. Basically it didn't recognize it
I use a mouse for the laptop and it has no problem recognizing that I haven't tried anything else recently though. I have a different mouse i can see if it recognizes it
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Yep take it to a different computer and try formatting the drive.
Also as someone mentioned there are some very good generic usb keys floating around on the net.
MY guess as to whats weirding out is that you have a computer with a main/mother board that was a brand new design/chipset when you bought the PC and the BIOS is an early revision. This can cause all sorts of odd hardware conflicts in regards to things that were just becoming standard at the time you bought the computer.
It can never hurt to upgrade your bios and its pretty fool proof at this stage of the game unlike 10 years ago. Goto your makes website and see if they offer a newer version. Give it a try.