USB problems

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Hard to believe, but I've never used enough USB items to need more than the
included 4 ports, till now...

K7S5A WinXP

I was tired of kicking the connectors on the front of my case and was going
to start using a camera as well, so I bought a PCally 4 Port powered hub. I
plugged the power adapter in and moved the printer, mouse and scanner to it,
connecting the keyboard and the hub to the rear ports. When I powered up the
box, I expected to see XP make some adjustments, but thought that it seemed
to be going through a bit too much (but I figured I don't know XP or USB, so
what the heck). I rebooted and it seemed fine.

I then shutdown again (out of character as I usually run 24/7) and when I
powered up in a bit the mouse was frozen and it was giving me messages about
not finding the printer. It just got bizarre from there with all sorts of
problems until I finally put everything back where I had it before the hub
and she runs fine without any other sort of tweaks.

I've been really happy (surprisedly so) since I started running an XP
partition a while back and felt that they had finally taken the prayer out
of plug'n'pray, but I hadn't messed with it's USB.

Are these problems with XP, the Hub or the User :-) ? What's next?



Thanks for any input...
 
RandyH said:
I would try a more methodical approach. Plug in just the 4 port hub, does
windows acknowledge the fact that its plugged in? No -> try a different port
on the computer, if that still doesn't work, then I would suspect a problem
with the hub. If windows does recognize the hub (this may take 30 seconds,
but you should know when it finds it), then plug ONE device into the hub. If
that doesn't work, then try the device in a different port, if it doesn't
work in any port, then try a different device. If you still don't have any
luck, replace the hub.
Click to expand...

Another point - I would *not* connect either of the primary devices,
mouse and keyboard through a hub
 
Thanks for the thoughts.


If I connect Mouse and KB direct, then I have no spots open but on the front
and I would like to do away with putting anything there for physical
reasons.

Also... I had considered the process of elimination approach, but if this is
causing freezes and such, that *can't* be good for my registry and such (not
to mention all sorts of extra entries, unless XP cleans as it goes better
than 98se did). Lots of folks complained about 98, but, I had little trouble
with is by trying to do things right in the first place... as I went along.

Someone else has suggested that the hub may not get along with my chipset...
but I'm still looking for software and OS opinions, too.





Thanks again.




RandyH said:
I would try a more methodical approach. Plug in just the 4 port hub, does
windows acknowledge the fact that its plugged in? No -> try a different port
on the computer, if that still doesn't work, then I would suspect a problem
with the hub. If windows does recognize the hub (this may take 30 seconds,
but you should know when it finds it), then plug ONE device into the hub. If
that doesn't work, then try the device in a different port, if it doesn't
work in any port, then try a different device. If you still don't have any
luck, replace the hub.
Click to expand...

Another point - I would *not* connect either of the primary devices,
mouse and keyboard through a hub
 
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