Either USB or Router II

[J.Jack.J.]

To continue my earlier thread, the Router has now been working with
just a single, brief, inexplicable loss of connection (even though the
reception was showing as very good).
But my USB hubs continue to be problematic. They only recognise my
memory stick if I hold it at the right angle. My scanner doesn't show
up at all, even though it made some noises when I clicked on the exe
file for the Scan Gear setup.
Does that sound like software?
With thanks in advance.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

To continue my earlier thread, the Router has now been working with
just a single, brief, inexplicable loss of connection (even though
the reception was showing as very good).
But my USB hubs continue to be problematic. They only recognise my
memory stick if I hold it at the right angle. My scanner doesn't
show up at all, even though it made some noises when I clicked on
the exe file for the Scan Gear setup.
Does that sound like software?
With thanks in advance.

"But my USB hubs continue to be problematic. They only recognise
my memory stick if I hold it at the right angle"

Once you said that - it should be obvious that "software" is not your issue.
;-)

After all - unless you have an internal camera and some funky software
controlling what your machine can use (by sight identification) - how would
the OS know what angle you are using a device at?

 

[J.Jack.J.]

"But my USB hubs continue to be problematic. They only recognise
 my memory stick if I hold it at the right angle"

Once you said that - it should be obvious that "software" is not your issue.
;-)

  After all - unless you have an internal camera and some funky software
controlling what your machine can use (by sight identification) - how would
the OS know what angle you are using a device at?

That's what I thought but last time it happened and I took it back to
the shop, they insisted it was likely to be software.
The strange thing is that *all* my USB ports have suddenly gone this
way, and I haven't been mistreating them. It's just that some of them
yield a 'Device not recognised' bubble and some of them yield
nothing. And some of them seem rather better than others, depending on
the device being used.

What's more, it doesn't mater *what* angle I hold the scanner USB
connection, it doesn't show in My Computer.
I wondered whether this was to do with the fact that my scanner was
built a couple of years before Vista came along; but I have installed
the add-ons that the company said I needed. And shouldn't it at least
be *recognised* with something more than the binging noise?
With thanks.