Laptop believes USB hub is plugged in

General · 05-14-2007, 10:28 PM

When my laptop starts up, it reports about the 5th line down (just before it calculates amount of memory), that it found a hub. "USB Device(s): Hub" My computer has no hub attached, but it is likely that the previous owner used a single port to plug in USB devices, but there is no USB hub plugged into this port. I believe this is confusing my computer. Is there some proceedure for telling the computer's BIOS that it has a hub attached to it and (in my situation) for telling it that this is no longer there?

Matir · 05-14-2007, 10:33 PM

No, it's autodetected. All computers with more than one USB port have a built-in HUB, known as the USB root hub.

General · 05-14-2007, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Matir

No, it's autodetected. All computers with more than one USB port have a built-in HUB, known as the USB root hub.

This only has one USB port though...one place to plug in a USB device. Is there such a thing as a USB/PCMCIA root hub that is somehow a combination of the two?