Help! USB and NVIDIA driver issues

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Kronboss

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About three months ago, the mouse to my laptop stopped working. Shortly thereafter my iPod stopped being detected in my itunes and, thus, stopped syncing. iMy computer makes the noise that it has detected a USB device when i plug my ipod into the computer, but my iPod doesnt show up in the iTunes menu. I assume there are problems with the USB in that regard.
Also I bought Lord of the Rings Online and installed it with no problems, but when I went to play it, it wouldn't load up and was giving me error messages. Now when I click play, it doesn't do anything.. nothing loads at all.
So when I go to control panel >> hardware there are those "exclamation point in the yellow triangle" symbols next to the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150, and also next to the Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller.
I took it to Geek Squad (who held it for nearly a month and a half trying to fix it, only to find out that it was a software issue after replacing the motherboard... this software issue was determined to not be covered by my warranty -_-) and they suggested that it was a corrupt OS and that i should uninstall my OS and reinstall and reformat OS (they were also going to charge me 130$ for this service).
I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what to do. I have a HP Pavilion dv6000. Thanks a lot.
 

My Computer

System One

Hi Kronboss,

First, I think what Geek Squad did was absolutely ridiculous, they could have at least told you upfront about what was and wasn’t under warranty.

Now, the first thing I would do is backup all my critical files and folders. Once that's done, then I'd look to have the OS reinstalled. The reason I say reinstall the OS is besides the issue you had/have, you also don't know what Geek Squad did, so it's best to start over new.

Most retail computers come with a restore disk. If you have it, you should be able to restore the system back to factory specs.

If you don't know how to do this, then I would suggest you find someone who is reputable and knowledgeable and have them do it for you. Maybe you could contact the manufacturer of the laptop directly and see if in fact they could do it for free?

I think $130 is too much just to reinstall an OS, but to be honest I’ve never had to pay for PC repairs since I build my own.

Good luck
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
    Motherboard
    Intel D975XBX2
    Memory
    Corsair TWIN2X4096-PC8500 (2x2GHz)
    Graphics card(s)
    ATI Radeon HD 4890 (1GHz)
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium - Fatality Pro Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    hp w2207h (22" widescreen)
    Screen Resolution
    1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    One 750GB, 2x500GB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives (32meg)
    PSU
    Antec Neo HE 550
    Case
    Antec P182
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9500 AT
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Revolution
    Keyboard
    Logitech Wireless Wave
    Internet Speed
    "High" Speed DSL? Is that like low speed FIOS?
    Other Info
    Q6600 B3 Revision OC to 3.0GHz
I recently bought a Lenovo IBM Thinkpad T42 for the office and it came with Acronis Recovery already installed on it and I think more and more laptops come like this now.

When you reboot the laptop, it goes to the normal booting routine and just before it will go into the login option, some wording appears telling you to hit F11 to do a system recovery... check and see if yours does the same if it didn't come with a recovery cd.

Good Luck
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Built
    CPU
    Intel Q9650 w/CM V8 Cooler...
    Motherboard
    EVGA 780i SLI FTW... Latest Bios & Drivers
    Memory
    Corsair Dominator 8GB (4 x 2GB) PC2-8500C5D
    Graphics card(s)
    EVGA GTX260
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Def Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 22" LCD Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    1680 x 1050
    Hard Drives
    WD Velociraptor 160GB Samsung Sata 750GB Maxtor External 160GB
    PSU
    PC Power & Cooling 750w Silencer
    Case
    Thermaltake Speedo Advance
    Cooling
    Air Cooled... See CPU
    Mouse
    Logitech G7
    Keyboard
    Logitech G15
    Internet Speed
    Comcast 6MB Broadband
    Other Info
    Linksys WRT54G router
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