Posted by nappy on 12/27/07 19:15

although I guess you would have to plugin another USB kbd to find out!
"nappy" <n@n.n> wrote in message
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> "ushere" <removethis.leslie.wand@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> nappy wrote:
>>> "ushere" <removethis.leslie.wand@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>> 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?
>>
>>
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> 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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