USB/Wifi Controller Missing

[ern]

A friend of mine has an MSI Wind and his USB Controller and Wifi Controller are missing/gone from the Device Manager. Wifi doesnt work neither does any of the usb ports. Also, the usb ports do not work before windows xp home boots to try and run a bootable flash drive. He reinstall the OS, scanned for new hardware, checked the bios for usb legacy support, reset the cmos and nothing. Anyone have any idea or ever ran into something like this before?

Could this be that the motherboard gave out?

 

[lowteckh]

Install chipset driver and WLAN driver.

 

[ern]

Ok good. That was going to be my suggestion but I wanted another opinion but more are also welcome.

 

[engiNURD]

report results.

 

[ern]

Installed chipset drivers and and Wlan drivers and NOTHING! We have tried everything.

I guess I should also mention we did a bios update from 1.06 to 1.10a. The thing is is that the system worked fine after the update. It just happen to start doing it the next day he brought it back to work with him.