Topic: You Guys are Heaven Sent

[Clive]

That poem must be seriously old Butterfly.   ChorleyDave will have to remind me when we were last at war with France.

[Butterfly]

Hiya Clive,

Yip if I remember correctly around 1812-17......not entirely sure of the year but it's yonks ago.  I seem to remember something about the Luddites being taught in History class at school but that was yonks ago too and you know what kids are like in History Class


 :wave:Butterfly

[Butterfly]

Hi Guys,

:tony:I just can't take any more! :'(  I bought a powered USB hub (Belkin Hi Speed USB 2.0 4-port Hub £25 from Argos) I uninstalled the printer software and rebooted........ I connected the hub....fine....I plugged in printer, windows detected it..put CD in and installed the printer software....a little window came up from printer software asking me what type of cartridge the printer was using......I didn't get a chance to click anything, my 'puter froze again :brick:

What am I doing wrong???

 :curse:Butterfly

[Butterfly]

p.s...should I plug cable modem into serial hub?   :'(

[Sandra]

The modem should be ok left in the pc port Butterfly.
Usually with USB devices they like the software installing before the hardware.
I would disconnect the all in one thing and unistall the software then reinstall the software from the cd and it will probably ask you to connect the device once its installed the software  

[Butterfly]

Hi Sandra,

It didn't work like that I tried it...but... ....I now have cable modem plugged into serial USB hub & I have printer plugged into it too......everything working fine so far.....well it didn't freeze after the log in screen and I'm here writing this post.....I'm so excited

You think this is going to be okay the way I've done it? or am I gonna blow myself and 'puter up?

Lots of Love
Butterfly  
xxx

[Dack]

Should be no problems at all.

Though if you do smell smoke..........

(Actually had that happen once when someone put the USB headers onto the motherboard the wrong way....this caused the 5V to connect directly to ground and strange blue smoke started coming from the computer)

[Butterfly]

:mg:

[Sandra]

If it aint broke dont fix it  
It does sound as if you are seriously underpowered on your pc though.
Have you got some details/specifications of your pc ?
If you are unsure there is a free program, Belarc Advisor, that you can download from here :

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

You could install that and post some screenshots to let us know what you are running :doggie:

[Dack]

Ummm....just checked Argos webite and it wouldn't be this hub would it?
http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=1751&productId=89895

Can you just confirm it's got a separate power supply and doesn't get it's power from the USB bus (as thats the problem you've got with the printer and modem).

[Butterfly]

Hiya Sandra,

Okay I've downloaded that and have the profile summary here......what is it you would like to see?.......do I just copy paste it to here?  It's gobbledegook to me

Butterfly

[Sandra]

Can do that or if you know how to do a screen shot of the various bits of info then you could attach them here.
Can never have too much information Butterfly, number and type of IDE drives etc, type of cpu and make and model of motherboard.
Any external devices attached, amount and type of RAM (memory) etc  

[Butterfly]

Hiya,

Yes that's the one but it doesn't look like that at all....it's oval shaped and black......it has a seperate power supply.

 :)Butterfly

[Sandra]

Just a thought Butterfly, please dont think that I assume that you are a blonde  
You have got the power switched on to the usb hub have you ?
As they will still work on some devices with the power off, as we are suspecting that power is the problem then it would need to be plugged in and switched on to get the benefits  

[Butterfly]

Okay Sandra...here goes

Operating System   System Model
Windows XP Professional (build 2600)   No details available
Processor a   Main Circuit Board b
500 megahertz AMD K6-2 w/3DNow!
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache   Board: First International Computer, Inc. PAG2130 PCB 1.x
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 4.51 PG 03/07/00
Drives   Memory Modules c,d
19.44 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
14.43 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148P
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

FUJITSU MPF3204AT [Hard drive] (19.44 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 05035841, rev 0028, SMART Status: Healthy   184 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot '0' has 64 MB
Slot '1' has 128 MB
Slot '2' is Empty
  Local Drive Volumes
     
c: (on drive 0) 19.44 GB 14.43 GB free

Controllers   Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller   Trident Video Accelerator Blade 3D/MVP4 [Display adapter]
Samsung SAMTRON 55E(Plus) [Monitor] (13.8"vis, s/n HJCNA05422, October 2000)
Bus Adapters   Multimedia
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller   Standard Game Port
VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM)
Communications   Other Devices
HSP56 Micromodem
WebSTAR DPX USB Cable Modem Adapter
Network Card MAC Address: 00:40:7B:81:D1:E9
Network IP Address: XXXXXXXXXXX / 21   Lexmark X1100 Series
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
Generic USB Hub
Generic USB Hub
USB Printing Support
USB Root Hub
USB Root Hub
Virus Protection  
No AntiVirus details available ....I have PCcillan

Is this what you need?

Lots of Love
Butterfly
xxx


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