Device doesn't work on USB hub but works when directly connected to the computer?
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?
It's because your hub doesn't actually give you more ports in the sense that your computer will recognize "Hey, there's more ports." Your computer looks at them all on the same port. Hence, the PC is confused easily. I had the same situation.
Imagine you are talking to someone. All of sudden, they leave, and four new people are there, but they are all the first person, and all are asking for different things. Now while this may sound like something out of a Stephan King novel, this is exactly what your PC is dealing with.
I bought a Belkin USB PCI card at staples for roughly 20 bucks, and don't have any issues anymore. Make sure you buy the actual card that plugs into the motherboard, not just another hub.
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