Memory Stick Trouble

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Guest

Hi,
Me and my Father have both bought new Emachines computers about last
September and havent had any major problems until a few months ago and it
happend to both computers. We thought it would go away. The problem was that
random times that we plug our two different brand, and size of sticks in any
USB port the computer would not reconize it, and would have to restart the
computer. But, whenever we couldn't get the sticks to work the computer would
not shut down in any form until you hold the power button down. My question's
are: is this common, is this fixable, and if so how? At first we thought it
might be a virus but my computer is not connected to the internet. Then we
might have thought it was our sticks but it doesn't do it in Vista. Can
anyone help???

Thanks
Koda
 
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Elmo

hemiboy6 said:
Hi,
Me and my Father both bought new Emachine computers about last
September and haven't had any major problems until a few months ago and it
happened to both computers. We thought it would go away. The problem was that
random times that we plug our two different brand, and size of sticks in any
USB port the computer would not recognize it, and would have to restart the
computer. But, whenever we couldn't get the sticks to work the computer would
not shut down in any form until you hold the power button down. My question's
are: is this common, is this fixable, and if so how? At first we thought it
might be a virus but my computer is not connected to the internet. Then we
might have thought it was our sticks but it doesn't do it in Vista. Can
anyone help?

Thanks
Koda
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Maybe something here.

USB Help site:
http://www.usbman.com/WinME USB Guide.htm

General USB troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310575

Troubleshooting for USB drives
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html
 

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