

You can double click on every USB Root Hub entry and click the Power tab to see if your device is listed. To do this, expand the Universal Serial Bus controllers group at the bottom of the list.

In either case, the device is not re-detected by the computer and thus you will not be able to communicate with it.įollow the instructions below to re-detect the device within Windows when this happens: Also, this can happen when a computer returns from having been hibernated. For example, often when a computer goes into standby or power-save mode it will often shut down power to the USB ports. This behavior occurs when the device loses power, but the computer does not.
