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It seems that although I have been running various early releases of Windows 7 since around late January I have had no real problems at all – but just prior to being out of the office for an event I found a few issues:

• VPN wasn’t working for some reason
• I didn’t have the time to troubleshoot it
• The event was Tech Ed 09 and as it was sort of like a soft Launch for Windows 7 I thought I’d do a final build with proper release code from MSDN

It seems that although the USB was working correctly through all the previous releases – it was this final release that tipped it over the edge and for some reason caused the USB subsystem to quite erratic and would only recognise very few devices.

And so the answer was to update the BIOS

I have not touched the BIOS since I got the device originally so it was still on F.0 – the latest currently available is F.14

When I went to install F.14 I was warned that I needed to upgrade to F.10 first…

Once this was installed ALL USB was working exactly as advertised.

I just thought it worth mentioning that before or after installing Windows 7 that it’s worth making sure the BIOS is up to date as well?

written by dcaddick