My USB ports have not been working for a long time. They will charge my phone, but windows doesnt pick them up nor any other device I connect via any of the USB ports. I recently took my computer into a shop to have them fix a wire that had come undone and asked them to look at my USB ports and figure out why they werent working. When I got it back they told me the USB ports were connected to the motherboard and to get them to work I would need to replace the motherboard. They said however that the Esata port worked and I asked them if I could use that to connect my USB from my iPhone in order to connect to itunes. They said with an adapter it should work. So I bought the adapter and of course when I connect the USB in to it, the computer wont recognize the device. I even tried connecting the USB directly into the Esata port and still nothing, but it will charge the phone, just not recognize it.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
The computer is a Dell Inspiron N7010 running Windows 7