Ed it sounds like a RAM problem. How much ram do you have. These days you need at least 1g. How big is your hard drive. You need to have at least 10g constantly free at all times. This might mean a larger one. You may be running 2.0 devices but is your system truly 2.0 or higher. Go to start, run, try this:
- Right-click My Computer
- Click on Properties
- Click on the Hardware tab
- Click on the Device Manager button
- Scroll down as needed until you see Universal Serial Bus
Controllers
- Expand that by clicking on the boxed plus sign in front of
Universal Serial Bus Controllers
At this point you should see something like this:
"... on most machines the presence of
'Enhanced', even only once, means that all USB ports are USB 2.0 ports
..."
Note the highlighted line: "Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host
Controller". While the exact text may vary, the key is the word
"Enhanced".
If it's "Enhanced", it's USB 2.0. If it's not, then it's USB
1.x.
Now, wasn't that obvious?
Important: on most machines the presence of
"Enhanced",
even only once (which it typically is), means that
all USB ports are USB 2.0 ports. Typically a machine will have only one
type of port and this tells you which kind they all are.
The one exception to this scenario is a machine with USB 1.1 ports
that has a USB 2.0 expansion card added. In this case I know of no way
to tell which is which, other than simply knowing you added a USB 2.0
card to a machine with built-in 1.1 ports. Obviously in a case like
this, the built-in ports are 1.1, and the added expansion card ports are
2.0.
Hope this helps.
JimmyC
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