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RE: USB Flash Drive Slows Down Computer
Background:
Computer = Dell E510
OS = Windows XP SP2
Scenario:
Inserting a 1GB Kingston USB flash drive to a USB port
Results:
1) Computer slows down to a crawl or even freezes
EX: after clicking on internet explorer icon, it takes a long time before the internet explorer window opens. if i click on many icons/shortcuts, the computer will eventually freeze up and a long beep comes from the tower.
2) the cpu usage revs up to 50% (however, i cannot see which process is using this much cpu power in taskmanager.
Action taken:
1) Updated the chipset utilities (from dell website and from intel website)
2) updated the bios from dell website
3) looked up microsoft KB....got the following result...
4) tried the 1 GB kingston usb flash drive on another computer. works fine
5) tired a 128MB lexar usb flash drive on this computer. works fine
6) tired my G3 ipod. got the same result as my 1GB kingston usb flash drive.
7) unistalled the USB root hubs and rebooted and reinstalled
7) unistalled the USB root hubs and rebooted and reinstalled
8) tried all of the other usb ports
Results...nothing changed from all of these actions...
so if anyone has experienced this problem or knows of any other solution or has the hotfixes that microsoft is suggesting (and asking 35 dollars for fixing), i would be very appreciative for any help.
thanks
Message Edited by ydobwonk on 01-01-200710:49 PM
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jmwills
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January 2nd, 2007 04:00
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January 2nd, 2007 05:00
ydobwonk
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January 2nd, 2007 17:00
i know it's KISS (keep it simple stupid)...but oh my goodness...such headache
but i guess if i don't find the right answer...i can do simple and start from scratch...
oh such dread ;)
thanks for the suggestion though
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January 3rd, 2007 00:00