USB kills Network

[Anthony C]

Hi

For a long time now I've had problems whereby all of a sudden a load of
services terminate, taking out system restore, windows audio, automatic
updates, telephony, windows firewall and internet connection sharing to
name a few of the more significant ones. I have over the weeks traced
this phenomenon to USB activity. If for example I plug in in a pendrive
after a few minutes bang goes all the afore mentioned services. and the
network connection gets screwed up. I have a Compaq Presario 2100 note
book with 1GB Ram.

Any ideas anyone?


Anthony

 

[Keith Wheeler]

Anthony

See if Compaq has a FlashBIOS update for your machine. That would be where
I'd start.

KW

 

[Anthony C]

Yeah good idea but I tried it ... I'm on the latest bios release at the
moment and problem still persists!

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Anthony

Have you checked that pen drive for any malicious files???

A USB thumb drive can be a significant security threat.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Could the USB port(s) and the network adapter both use the same IRQs????


Is the network connection(s) not USB????

 

[Anthony C]

Hi
Thanks for your comments. Well the answer to that would have to be yes
as the newtwork adapter is a wireless USB device. However I have tested
whether this is the problem by trying a network connection via the RJ45
connection (direct to cable modem)and I had exactly the same problem!!!
The issue appears to a conflict between the services themselves but
somehow USB related.

Any further ideas anyone?