greggors84
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| posted on 27/11/06 at 03:13 PM |
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USB Device Not Recognised
I keep on getting an intermittant fault popping up when I plug something into my USB drive.
A message pops up from the task bar and says USB device not recognised. If I unplug it and plug it back in it sometimes works and sometimes I have to
try a few times to get it to work.
The thing that isnt working at the moment is a Wireless USB dongle. But it happens with lots of things.
Chris
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Agriv8
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| posted on 27/11/06 at 03:37 PM |
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If its a desktop are you plugging usb devices into the ports on the front or rear of the divice.
I have known all sorts of weirdness happening when using the front ports but ussually the ones at the rear work OK.
Dont know why but it seems to make a difference ?
regards
Agriv8
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Peteff
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| posted on 27/11/06 at 03:50 PM |
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when I plug something into my USB drive.
Do you mean a 4 port extension or similar? Does it prompt you to install the drivers for the device? Does the USB extension have it's own power
supply? These kind of items are usually more reliable plugged into the rear hardwired sockets as mentioned above, I have a printer which is not
recognised by the USB extension but works fine on the rear connections.
yours, Pete
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Hellfire
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| posted on 27/11/06 at 04:00 PM |
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There are some dodgy USB extensions out there... try a new one! I had one... since I got my new shielded one I have not had a recurrance fo the
problem
Steve
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Werner Van Loock
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| posted on 27/11/06 at 04:03 PM |
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check that you don't bend one of the 4 tabs it has, i came across several bad devices and ports already. Most of the time it is that you plug it
in, that instead of sliding over eachother they hit frontal and one of them just bends and makes bad contact.
If using usb hub, make sure it's apowered one.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 27/11/06 at 06:33 PM |
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Sounds like a USB power supply issue, on some motherboards the voltage supplied from the USB sockets drops if USB devices that put a large current
drain are used -- used to see it a lot particularly with early Alcatel Speedtouch USB modems on older mother boards.
Usual cures were either use an external powered USB hub or fit a USB PCI card.
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Avoneer
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| posted on 27/11/06 at 06:58 PM |
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Yeah, me too. Had a temperemental USB slot on the front of my Tower.
I just use one of the ones on the back with a hub on the desktop.
I think they are all a bit fragile.
Try another port and see if it's ok.
Pat...
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