Posted by ushere on 12/27/07 22:37

nappy wrote:
> "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?
>
>

device manager shows up a 'virtual keyboard'. i deleted it, rebooted,
gone. also tried a couple of other keyboards. same story.
frankly i've had enough of it. i'm going to get another ex hd to leave
hooked on the pc (straightforward usb rather than firewire since i only
use it for backing up projects i'm working on), and the other, the
xcraft, for some totally unexlicable reason appears to work normally if
plugged into the usb port on the front of my pc. mother board giga ds3p.
though why it works on the front port but not the back is yet another
box of tricks that i'm not interested in sorting out....

my local geek pointed me to m$'s sp3 rc1 - said it gave a 10% increase
in speed. he wasn't kidding. and it seemed stable on my office pc i
moved it across to the edit pc (long before this ex hd problem started).

i hope 2008 is simpler

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