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Hi,
I have a Logitech V450 Nano mouse and a Vodafone 3G dongle and neither work in either of the two left side USB ports. There are no conflicts that I can see and a USB pen seems to work OK.
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks,
Derek.
Hmm dunno – the usb drive works in the left hand ports and it’s ok. I just updated the chipset drivers and the bios but to no avail. Can anyone else use these ports for wireless mice / 3g dongles? I assume everyone can?
Hi , have been using the 3 broadband dongle and a Logitech wireless optical netbook mouse…both on the left USB ports with no issues so far …
get an eraser (a regular pencil eraser) and slice a thin enough piece off of it to fit into the usb port and rub the usb contacts with it. do the same with the devices. this will clean any carbon or other nonsense off of the contacts ensureing they are getting a good connection.
check that the devices are both enabled in device manager, if you disable them on one port device manager will remember the setting.
I’ve also been using both ports with no problems – my Logitech mouse in one and a flash memory stick in the other.
Thanks everyone – I persevered with my dongle and it appears it may work OK in the front left port – I’ll try again in a minute or two. I guess it could be as simple as a dirty port! That’ll make me feel a bit stupid! 🙂
I often experience this kind of behaviour on my desktop. Some devices work in some ports but not others with other things working in all ports.
It’s something I’ve never really understood but have just worked around. To me it appears that ports are treated independently – have you noticed that if you move a device to a new port sometimes it runs the “new hardware” wizard again.
Anyways, hope you have got it all up and running now.
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I often experience this kind of behaviour on my desktop. Some devices work in some ports but not others with other things working in all ports.It’s something I’ve never really understood but have just worked around. To me it appears that ports are treated independently – have you noticed that if you move a device to a new port sometimes it runs the “new hardware” wizard again.
Anyways, hope you have got it all up and running now.
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That’s correct Jez. If you plug in, for example, a USB flash drive into the 1st port on the left of the NC10, you will see, in the system tray, drivers being installed. This will then reoccur if you plug the same USB flash drive into the 2nd USB port on the left and also the right USB port.A few weeks ago I my wireless dongle stoped working after I plugged an external hard drive (the HD had its own power)… But I think it was a power issue :S (of course both were on the left side). I just had to plug the wireless dongle on the right and voila.
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To me it appears that ports are treated independently – have you noticed that if you move a device to a new port sometimes it runs the “new hardware” wizard again.
[/quote1228756859]usb ports are grouped into busses under usb root hubs within the windows system. if you switch a device from a port on one root hub to a port on another, you get the new hardware wizard as that root hub has never seen the device before.
dunno how the nc10’s southbridge treats its root hubs, but a root hub lacking a driver would mess with functionality of certain usb ports.
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