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[Closed] Laptop - electronic issue?

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Apologies for the constant threads, there's been a lot of IT work chez grips lately.

Small laptop - when I plug a USB hard drive into either USB port, it cuts powere immediately. Clearly some kind of overload protection. It doesn't do it with a USB flash drive. I may well have overloaded it in the past with an external DVD drive, but maybe not as I'm sure that had previously worked.

Anyway, what's weird is that if I plug the drive in BEFORE I boot, it works perfectly.

Some online sources seem to suggest that the USB overload protection might be a software thing..


 
Posted : 17/01/2014 10:35 am

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