USB device not recognized, need help

[Max-Powers]

I have a Targus wireless mouse for my laptop. I plug in the little dongle and the mouse works. I have used it for months no with no problem. Now all a sudden, when I plug in the dongle it tells me "USB device not recognized" The lights on the dongle flash when I use the mouse, so it gets the signal. I have searched on the web and have tried many things including deleting the entries under the USB on my registry and turning off my computer for a long time.
My laptop is a dell inspiron 1520

 

[That_Sound_Guy]

Does your USB dongle and mouse work in another computer? Its not exactly uncommon for those things to die from all the pulls and inserts people do with them. Any of the pins bent? A normal usb device like a ipod, wired mouse, printer, memory stick work fine through the same usb port?