Comments | selenay936: Ah, weekends

selenay936

Ah, weekends

Nov 19, 2006 20:03

Dear Spinal Column,

Yes, I did housework. I shifted stuff, sorted, tidied and vacuumed. This is not your cue to really, really, really hurt. So cut it out, will you?

No love,
Me

In other news, yesterday was really good fun. I met up with paranoidangel42, kate_closet and blonde_sheep for a few hours in London and it was really good to see them all again. We lost kate_clost and ( Read more... )

computer woes, best friend in america, back pain

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gmul November 19 2006, 20:22:36 UTC

The USB trouble may or may not be due to whether the specific ports are USB 1 or USB 2 - the latter is able to provide more power for things like external disks. A graphics tablet would be quite happy on USB1 most like.

Hope your back behaves again soon!

selenay936 November 20 2006, 11:45:16 UTC

Hmm, now that's something to check.

The front ports did allow an external hard drive to work without issues a couple of weeks ago, but it has its own power source. The major issue has been with memory card readers and my iPod. I'll have a look and check which type of USB each port is and see whether that's the source of the problems. Thank you!

wadjet_theperv November 19 2006, 20:36:45 UTC

*rubsbackbettergently*

No more housework, ya hear? She's your friend. She isn't coming to see the state of your house and would probably be mortified to think of you causing yourself pain to make it all shiny.

Silly person ;o)

selenay936 November 20 2006, 11:22:26 UTC

See, she needed a spot on the floor so I needed to do some clearing. Plus BFiA has allergies and my floor hadn't been vacuumed for a month so that really had to be done - I don't want to make her ill from sleeping here!

I think my mother might have had too much influence on what I feel is a suitable state for the house when visitors come, though :-) I might have taken things a bit too far...

Thanks for the nice rubs. My back...er...hurts even more today. So I'm learning my lesson. Take housework in nice small steps rather than one big go at doing everything.

I may be aiming at an early exit tonight.

paranoidangel42 November 19 2006, 21:06:47 UTC

PA went to ZZ9 around 6pm

Except for the part where they'd buggered off when I got there. No idea why.

(hopefully BFiA and I didn't bore you too much...)

No, if you had I would probably have gone earlier!

selenay936 November 20 2006, 11:43:34 UTC

Except for the part where they'd buggered off when I got there

I wondered why you were home earlier than I'd expected! That's a shame :-(

No, if you had I would probably have gone earlier!

Phew!

What gmul said! the_magician November 19 2006, 23:29:01 UTC

USB2.0 ports can take faster devices (like external storage) which might have timing problems with USB1.0/1.1 ports.

Also a USB port should be able to provide a certain amount of power (500milliamps) but if the front ports are just daisy chained from the rear ones, then maybe there isn't enough power to go around all the devices.

My recommendation (if you can afford it) is to go to Maplin and buy a brown box USB card (£9.99 last time I checked) which just plugs into a spare slot in your PC and gives you brand new and wonderful USB ports. It's what I did on my old PC when I wanted to connect an external hard drive at a sensible speed.

Extension cables, again you may find that some are better than others (and length comes into it to, though I doubt your's is over 10 feet long!), older cheaper cables may have problems with interference at high speed (and even timing problems).

Re: What gmul said! selenay936 November 20 2006, 12:21:04 UTC

I wrote a good, intelligent reply to this but LJ ate it. Grrr.

I'll have a look into the possibilities you and gmul have suggested and see what port types the various types are on the machine. We've now established that one of the memory card readers that I was trying (the one that completely locked up my system when attempting to access it) was in fact faulty - it locked up another computer last night despite not locking up my dad's laptop when we tried it there.

The one thing that I haven't tried is experimenting with the external hard drive. That has its own power supply and I didn't have issues with it a couple of weeks ago. But the computer was having a good USB day that day so I need to check again. Then I'll start working out exactly what works where and how before deciding whether I put in new cards or other fun things :-)