(OT) Flaky USB Bus

[Peter Dobratz]

> I have (my wife) a Win XP machine that is driving me beserk.
> She decided that a new printer was in order and I would (obviously)
> take care of the rest of that idea...
>
> How would you check the functionality of a USB Bus / Controller?

At the risk of bringing this on-topic, you could try booting the
machine with a Linux live CD.  I know the Ubuntu installer CD has
this, and I think a bunch of other distributions do too (Knoppix was
one of the first to make this popular).  You can boot up the live CD
and run Linux without touching the contents of the hard drive.
Hopefully, you can print too.

Peter