Vista - USB Devices and hubs

Hi,

I had a set of USB devices working OK on my laptop (mouse, printer,
scanner, labeller, disk) and decided to route all through a hub to
make things simpler to cabling and moving my laptop around.

I installed the hub and recabled everything and all worked fine for a
couple of days.

Now, nothing works through the hub. The devices are recognized alright
(I get the bong sound when I plug and unplug and the printer status
comes OK) but I cannot scan and I cannot print. The mouse works fine,
though.

Has anyone run into this before?

Thanks!
W

<wiserandwiser@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5a81448a-d75b-4801-9fd4-6e1552eb72db@xxxxxxIs it just the printer?
I have a couple Lexmark printers that will do this. If I unplug or plug
while the PC is on, they act like they were never on the machine before.
Several times have had to completely un install and re install to get them
to work again. I tried lots of idea's, nothing ever worked. I found
sometimes if I made sure the PC was off, and then did it, it would work,
even that did not always work. PITA. I finally just left the printer scanner
on the desktop. If I want to print something I use a jump drive.
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No, my HP scanner is acting funny too, now. If I try to scan my
starting the HP Solution Center application it claims it cannot talk
to the scanner. If I try to scan by pressing the front-panel button it
scans but at an unreasonable high resolution. For some reason I now
see several scanner devices.

I solved the printer problem by removing the printer and letting Vista
re-install the drivers.

Alex Clayton wrote:

You will have to get a USB hub with it'e own power access point.
By the sound of things, you have everything plugged into the hub, and using
the laptop's power supply, which is insufficient.
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"wiserandwiser@xxxxxx" wrote:

Hi Mick, thanks for the response. In fact, I have the USB hub powered
separately. That was the first thing I thought of.


Mick Murphy wrote:

This can, and will, happen with USB devices. Unless you keep plugging the
printer into the same port, it will be detected as a "new" printer at a
different USB port. Windows XP did the same thing. The only good news is
that once you've plugged it into every available port it will no longer show
up as "new".

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