help with usb problems

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so i installed leopard and usb devices don't seem very plug and play'ish, plain just doesn't work, anyone know how to start fixing this? thanks

 

my system is currently dual booting xp and leopard iatkos v1.0 (2.08gb one) no problem, but in mac, i don't know how to configure or test if usb is working or not, i plugged ipod in and nothing reacts.

 

system specs: this is all on an hp pavilion dv5000 (intel) laptop with nvidia go 7400 video card, 1gb memory

 

during verbose boot up of mac i do see printed to screen something about not being able to take control of something usb related from bios.

 

However, when i went into my laptop bios, there's no option relating to usb, seems like the laptop bios is oem locked so i can't access certain settings;

 

then i looked on google about editing locked/hidden bios features for a long time, downloaded phoenix bios editor, stumbled onto an entire forum of cracking vista thru modding bios, and arrived at pretty much no where on possibly getting usb for my mac installation.

 

thanks in advance for any tips