Originally Posted by wchillhowell

I have a HP Pavilion dv 8000 laptop. The USB ports do not work nor does the Internet -and at one time nor the other input devices. I re-installed windows w/ the recovery disk and still my Keyboard and mouse did not work. I upgraded to Vista and got my KB & mouse working again but not the USB, Internet or card drives. I then deleted, partitioned and formatted a new drive and went back to WIN XP. The KB and mouse still worked but not the USB ports or Internet. The internet does work wirelessly!? I've tried everything regarding the USB-discharging batteries, cutting power to port, uninstalling, reinstalling drivers, etc.., updating BIOS, even the recovery disks. The recovery disk said it would replace all drivers including Chipset. Under "Device Manager" everything seems to be normal? It obviously is NOT a software problem but a hardware one-any ideas? The PC was not used much and never seemed to have overheated, but one day the card reader, USB and Internet just stopped working? HELP!!! Please also respond to "ebonchill@aol.com"