Device doesn’t work on USB hub but works when directly connected to the computer?
Posted by Printer | Posted in Add-ons | Posted on 13-11-2009
Tagged Under : Fax Scanner, Printer Scanner
retants asked:
I have 2 different devices (a label printer and a digital camara) that work just fine when plugged into one of the USB ports that are built into my computer but don’t work when I plug them into my USB hub. I’m out of internal ports (1 for the keyboard/mouse, 1 for the external disk drive, 1 for the USB hub that still has 2 other devices that work on it and 1 for a printer/fax/scanner device).
Will getting a PCI USB Card resolve this problem? Or do I need to play musical-USB-port with all the devices until I find a solution that works? Or is there a way to beef this up so that these more lightly used devices WILL work with the hub?
The USB Hub is powered and only half full (although that shouldn’t matter).
As I said, the USB hub is powered. So that isn’t the solution.
Will a PCI/Internal card be able to provide more power to the label printer?