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Old Oct 24, 2007, 05:53 PM   #1
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USB Device has malfuctioned...
How often does this occur for anyone of you?

The first time it happened when i had a microsoft inteliexplorer 2.0 mouse where the cord had been broken, it would work and then not work and oventually a popup would state it had malfuctioned.. that's normal.

but what about NEW stuff..

The first thing i had fail was just recently with a logitech usb optical mouse.... plugged it in fresh outa the box.... failed..

and JUST today, received a sandisk m250 2gb mp3 player.... had great reviews, someone wanted it specifically from me..

received it, popped the box open, plugged it in to do a test run make sure things are working, and instantly greeted with the usb failed..

Initially i was thinking "oh great, a vista incapbility"... plugged it into a xp pro sp2 machine, same thing..

whipped out an older machine, plugged it in, and volla, worked... kinda..... usb 1.1 however, only allows me to transfer one song at a time, sometimes it doesn't completely the transfer... seems really glitchy... even crashes windows media player 11 occasionally...

Popped a USB 2.0 pci card into that same machine, booted up, plugged it in... usb failed...??? plugged it into the usb 1.1 slots again... partially works.

I think i just received a bloody dud..

what's worse, i can't return the sucker even if i've only just received it and it's only been a day since i bought it.... special orders suck...

Still waiting on sandisk support to get back to me.... but dammit, always seem to get duds.
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Old Oct 24, 2007, 06:44 PM   #2
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it's probably just a dud drive like you think if it should be USB 2.0-compatible.

but always be careful when using USB connection.
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Old Oct 24, 2007, 06:45 PM   #3
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Well, I will buy it off you for a very low price if you are interested.
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er... what's a very low price..

atm, it's $105 before shipping and taxes
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second hand broken sandisk m250 for $105 ? Surely you jest.
I was thinking more like 25.
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The shipping alone for it is 25 bucks.. lol

105 is AT wholesale cost...

i'd rather wait for sandisk to get back to me then send something i purchased for 105 for 25
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BIOS built-in flash utility reports "BIOS ID check error" when reading BIOS file from some of my USB drives.
the utility will always give the error when i put the BIOS file on some certain USB drives.
put the BIOS file in another USB drive or in a diskette will fix that.
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wow 100+ dollars for a 2gb mp3 player? that seems a little steep
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ipods are in the $200+ range for the 4gb+
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Because my suppliers had to order it specially from thier suppliers....
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may i ask did you tell the customer that it had to be a special order?
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yes they were fully aware of it
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yes they were fully aware of it
I dont suppose you plugged one of your USB hubs in wrong to the jacks on the board itself? Might have done what I did on Intel Badaxe 2 and plugged USB into 1394 instead because it wasnt labeled and was the same color And now your stuff is getting eaten with the voltage 1394 is putting out.

I killed 4 Ipod 8GB before I realized what was going on haha.
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er...

i unplugged my USB Flash drive i was using.. and plug the usb device into that port...

i've yet to screw up on the USB headers though.... most of the cases i get have the headers built in a fashion that won't allow you to put it in wrong
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