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USB drivers A yellow exclamation mark on Universal Serial Bus Controller Drivers in the device manager on a dell that had win xp and i have installed windows 2000 professional.

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Ahuh..remove that usb controller, and then do a hardware scan for differences should work well

and by the way, got backup for that Dell?

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