Re: Best Buy and my Laptop

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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:41:00 -0700, ericx
<ericx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a power supply hooked up to the USB card, it works fine with the
external hard drive, and when i unplug the drive, and plug in my MP3 player,
it charges it just fine. I agree that i shouldnt have taken it to best buy,
but not sure whom i can take it to now. I think i should just take it back,
its only been a couple weeks since i got it back, maybe sue them for $54
million for screwing up my laptop. The only thing i now have hooked up to the
USB card is my MP3 player, my wirless is hookedup to another port. Any other
advice? Thanks for the answers so far.

"smlunatick" wrote:

On Mar 17, 5:38 am, ericx <er...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently had a 2 port usb 2.0 card bus adaptor installed on my computer. I
am running xp. Since the installation, i have been unable to use my wireless
mouse, my webcam, my mp3 player, and my touchpad mouse keeps freezing up on
me. Even though i have the software and drivers installed for all these
devices on my laptop, when i plug them into the card, they dont seem to be
recognized by my laptop anymore. The only thing the card will recognize is
the external hard drive i had installed for storage. I do have a power
adaptor hooked up to the card since i was told by best buy that the external
hard drive pulled to much juice from my laptop. (i have an older 1450 gateway
solo)

Can anyone give me some fixes so i can start enjoying some of my devices again

They were right to say that a 3.5 inch external hard drive draws too
much power from the PC. However, it also seem that the card is not
providing power for the other USB devices. To test, you should
disconnect every USB device and start to reconnect the mouse , webcam
and MP3. You should see when the USB will start to not be able to
recognize these.

One possible fix is to add a self powered USB hub, since these usually
have their own power supply which would add power over the USB.

How can you have a power supply hooked up to a card that resides IN
THE COMPUTER?

.

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