Posted by nappy on 12/27/07 18:13

"ushere" <removethis.leslie.wand@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:uifcj.27729$CN4.2114@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> nappy wrote:
>> "ushere" <removethis.leslie.wand@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:ke5cj.27624$CN4.27256@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>> winxp, xcraft firewire ex drive. logitech wireless key board.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> leslie
>>
>> I would guess that's due to a poorly written driver for the kbd. The
>> drive doesn't use one. What happens if you put the kbd on another
>> hub?
>>
>>
>
> interestingly enough, it's a ps2 keyboard (logitech lx 700), and it was
> all
> performing happily till a few days ago?
>
>

wacky! I think it may stlll be thinking that your drive is actually a USB
keyboard. Can you tell us wht shows up in the USB devices part of the device
manager when this happens?

BTW.. SP3?

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