re: External Hard Drive stops my broadband
Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 6:52 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11702 messages posted)
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
-- Chinese proverb --
Win2k will from time to time have a hard time sharing the USB ports,,,but it can
be a error in the IRQ that windows has set up for both devices, win2k likes to share
IRQ 9 with many over loaded devices,,,you can try and reset the IRQ ,, remove all
the other USB items and just bout u[ with the new HD then once win2k inds the device
and gives it a new IRQ (with luck) then plug the other usb items one at a time after
a reboot for ea. item...win2k with some luck will let you rework the IRQ setting
but it's a real long shot with the USB port(s) you can try and add a USB pci card
that sometimes will work with win2k...
good luck
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On Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 5:37 am, Mark Knowlton wrote:
>I recently bought a 250gb External Hard Drive which works fine when connected to
>my computer by USB. But when I have both the hard drive and my wireless router
connected,
>my broadband connection starts dropping then turns itself off. They are both connected
>to separate USB ports and I have swapped them both around and used different leads
>but to no effect. Does anyone know what the problem is?
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