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I have a wireless headset. Nice one I bought for about $100 at best Buy.
Last week I started getting a message saying a USB Device has failed. Tracked it down to the headset.
When I uninstall the device, then re-plug the headset receiver back in, it immediatly errors out again. The headset works on other PC's,
Any thoughts on how to handle this?
Many thanks!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Uninstall and re-install the drivers?
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When I uninstalled the device, and the re-plugged the receiver back in, doesn't Windows see it as a new device and install/re-install the drivers?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Depends on whether the uninstaller actually removes the drivers and any/all configuration data (registry, ini files, etc...). Sometimes you have to pull these things out manually.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Ok, thanks!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I see sense of humor is frowned upon today in the lounge... 
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With all the foreigners amp'ed up by the U.S. election, it's pretty much bizarro world out there.
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Try a different USB port.
Assuming this is Windows, try deleting the USB port(s) from Device Manager and rebooting.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I accidentally upvoted you... then I changed it to 3 since I didn't mean to do it and there's no undo vote option... in case you're wondering about the apparent random 3-vote
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I've voted that post a 3 too, and so anyone seeing that will think that some prat voted it a 1 and a nice guy balanced it. Sanity has been restored!
Now, only if another twenty people vote it a 3 will it be funny. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Turn it off and back on again. 
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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The old 3 Finger salute heh?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Shut down, move it to a different USB port, and reboot.
If that doesn't work, go do Device Manager and uninstall the driver, then refresh the Device Manager to reinstall it (on Weven, "Scan for Changes").
If that doesn't work, run a disc scan, to look for/repair bad sectors.
If it's still no good, then look for any software that you installed when you first got the device (if anything), and:
- Check each executable and DLL in its installation directory for dependencies (Dependency Walker is good for this), making a note of any that are outside of the device's proprietary directory (e.g. in the Windows dir/system dir/shared dirs).
- Uninstall the software, making sure that the proprietary directory it was installed to is really gone (i.e. delete it manually, if it's still there).
- Check any of the dependencies to files in other directories. If the files were made by the company that made the device. rename them (as long as the device wasn't made by Microsoft).
- You can get rid of any registry entries, too, if you do that kind of thing (if you've never edited a Win registry, leave it).
- Reboot.
If that doesn't fix it, you'll probably have to settle for getting some new hardware.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thanks Mark, I'll try all this tonight.
Stay tuned!!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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