eSATA Drive Causes USB keyboard and Mouse to not function? 1

[kjv1611]

I just recently formatted and carried out a clean install of Vista on a used Dell Inspiron 530 desktop. It seems to work great for the most part (running a Q6600 CPU), but a couple of things seem quirky to me just last night. This computer is at our church, so I don't have web access for it unless I take it back to my house for some maintenance.

Anyhow, here is the deal:
I don't recall it happening during the morning service, so I'm not really sure what would cause it.

When connecting a 1TB Acomdata externa eSata hard drive, once connected, it caused the keyboard and mouse to stop working. Then once I disconnected and reconnected the keyboard and mouse, all was fine.

Another oddity just last night was that my Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB thumb drive couldn't be scanned, or hardly even recognized. It's possible that it's the drive, though, as an older 2GB version worked fine. I'll verify that this evening, hopefully, by connecting it again at home.s

Any thoughts/ideas on what could cause a conflict between an eSata port and the keyboard/mouse? I had changed a couple of drive mappings before that (optical drives). I'll see if I get the same results next time after the system has been restarted.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[linney]

What power supply does the "1TB Acomdata externa eSata hard drive" use, mains or USB from the Dell?

There is a limit to the amount of power available for USB devices that you might be exceeding?

USB 4-Port Hub - What brand is this?
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[kjv1611]

I'm using the eSata interface, not USB. It uses an AC adapter for power.

Here is the link for the product:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822216041

We also have this one (same thing, but 500GB):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822216035

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[kjv1611]

Okay, this one is solved. The reason it seemed to be freezing up the mouse and keyboard was b/c it was just taking forever to choose what to do for AutoPlay. The reason is well the drive has some rather large .M2T files which are HDV video files. I remedied this situation by disabling autostart.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[linney]

Thank you for posting the solution and feedback.