The Official Computer Tech Support Thread

[Captain Awesome]

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

If the USB controller lost communication with your USB device for any reason, that could have caused it. Being that USB devices are based on PnP technology, simply pulling them out and re-inserting them usually brings them back up without any other necessary intervention.

I'm not sure if your "docking station thing" is a USB hub (device that allows you to plug multiple USB devices in while only using a single USB port), but I never had any luck with maintaining a fast, reliable connection using them with multiple devices plugged in because the USB bandwidth and voltage per port is limited.
I would recommend that for any USB device that requires stability, you plug that device directly into its own port on the PC.

thanks for the advice, earlier i put the USB device directly into a usb slot at the front of my computer about a minute later the screen went blue and this giant message came up i didn't have time to read it all but it said something about performing an emergency shut down. Next thing i know my computers restarting but after it restarted itself everything seems to be working.

go figure. lol

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

thanks for the advice, earlier i put the USB device directly into a usb slot at the front of my computer about a minute later the screen went blue and this giant message came up i didn't have time to read it all but it said something about performing an emergency shut down. Next thing i know my computers restarting but after it restarted itself everything seems to be working.

go figure. lol

Yea the Blue Screen Of Death is quite an Oh Shit moment, but as long as you're back up and running without any further incidents, you can chalk it up to a random error as long as it's not a constant thing.

[Odyshape]

Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Yea the Blue Screen Of Death is quite an Oh Shit moment, but as long as you're back up and running without any further incidents, you can chalk it up to a random error as long as it's not a constant thing.

you can often make the computer boot from a recovery disk instead of HDD if you into bios so you can repair your computer,

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by Odyshape

you can often make the computer boot from a recovery disk instead of HDD if you into bios so you can repair your computer,

Removable media is usually set higher than the hard drive the OS is on, by default from the vendor. But yea, if it happens to be set so that the hard-drive boots first, then the user would have to enter the bios and change the boot order if he/she wanted to boot from a disk.

Captain Awesome doesn't need a repair disk though, so I don't see how it's relevant.