text: one of the usb devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned? i have a dell d600, giving me the following error messagage about every 5 seconds: “one of the usb devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it.  ashraf first try going into "device manager" and find the usb device that is malfuntioning. uninstall it, then reinstall it. see if that fixes it.