Posted by Arny Krueger on 12/25/07 15:40

"ushere" <removethis.leslie.wand@gmail.com> wrote in
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> winxp, xcraft firewire ex drive. logitech wireless key
> board.

You left out just about everything that could be relevant, like stuff about
the computer other than OS. As far as the OS goes, you didn't mention
whether SP/2 is applied to XP.

> all's fine till i power up the external drive, at which
> point i lose my keyboard. mouse, etc., all function fine.
> turn off drive, back to normal. have reformatted drive,
> tried different cable, socket, etc.,

> any suggestions?

Yes, the keyboard is USB, right?

There's some kind of collision between your firewire port and the USB port
that the keyboard is plugged into. I've had some sucess with adding another
USB port card in cases like these.

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