Yes, I believe it was the hubs fault. it is powered but it has never been perfect since day one. One of the Ports will constantly drop out! Thank you for your help.
I had a similar problem where my computer would just force shut itself down instead of hibernating. I was told to delete the hibernation files. The next time I hibernated itm, it actually worked!
3 days ago I plugged in my external into a USB hub to connect it to my laptop and be able to use a USB mouse and keyboard at the same time.
I was running music off it (My iTunes library is on my external) when I heard it make the "disconnected noise" and iTunes crashed.
I unplugged the device and plugged it back in and it came up with the following message: "cannot read device must be formatted first"
It didn't recognise a size or name for the device but it could read that it was a Maxtor.
I restarted the computer and the same problem kept re-occurring.
I tried to rebuild the NTFS as I thought it might haved Cr*ped itself while reading. But it kept coming back that it couldn't read any of the sectors....
now it has been unplugged for a day, I just plugged it in and it reads fine. Im not sure what the problem was, just wondering if anyone could help me out on what it was. I know that Maxtors have a high fail rate, is it time to get a new external?
Create a battleship type game using import random to generate numbers. When they sink your ship they win! (you could use use co-ordiantes (x/y) that have been randomly generaeted)
Oh dear. the cable (its a network cable, so im guessing ethernet) doesnt fit in any of the jacks. it does fit into my network jack on my laptop(which is the slightly bigger phone jack jack), but there are no network jacks on my computer. there are what seems to be two phonejacks though. one suspects they were for the faxing function which used to be popular. Its a pain because I only need the internet on that beastly machine for about 5 minutes.
Hi all, this must be the most absurd inquiry in the history of inquiries. i cannot, for the life of me, locate the plug for the internet networking cable on my tower of my PC computer. it runs ME, and veiwing the help files I came accross a vague suggestion of it being on the "expansion plug of the motherboard". Unfortunately I dont have a screw driver... or maybe fortunately because I cant even remember how grounding the tower works (am i supposed to be touching the comp + the ground, or not so?) AND if i did have a screw driver id probably damage something....
so what i was wondering is... is the plug internal or external, because I sure cannot find it. Thanks, Hails
