'Safely Remove Hardware' of flash drive disconnects my broadband

[Guest cuyocksol]

From the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the taskbar I select to remove my USB

flashdrive (Buffalo brand).

 

I get the proper 'now safe' pop-up, but I then find that my broadband

connection has also invariably been disconnected. (This is the other option

in Safely Remove Hardware: "SpeedTouch USB ADSL PPP" - but I do not select

it.)

 

I then have to manually reconnect to the internet, and sometimes it won't

even do this till after restart.

 

(Windows XP home edition with SP3)

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: 'Safely Remove Hardware' of flash drive disconnects my broadband

 

If your PC has a wired Ethernet NIC - connect the modem to it with a

Ethernet cable and not the USB. Obviously disconnecting the Flash is

causing a transient condition that causes the modem connection to fail.

 

"cuyocksol" <cuyocksol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:4655EE67-6E38-4874-AEDC-5B705F5287CF@microsoft.com...

> From the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the taskbar I select to remove my

> USB

> flashdrive (Buffalo brand).

>

> I get the proper 'now safe' pop-up, but I then find that my broadband

> connection has also invariably been disconnected. (This is the other

> option

> in Safely Remove Hardware: "SpeedTouch USB ADSL PPP" - but I do not select

> it.)

>

> I then have to manually reconnect to the internet, and sometimes it won't

> even do this till after restart.

>

> (Windows XP home edition with SP3)

[Guest Onsokumaru]

Re: 'Safely Remove Hardware' of flash drive disconnects my broadband

 

 

"cuyocksol" <cuyocksol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:4655EE67-6E38-4874-AEDC-5B705F5287CF@microsoft.com...

> From the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the taskbar I select to remove my

> USB

> flashdrive (Buffalo brand).

>

> I get the proper 'now safe' pop-up, but I then find that my broadband

> connection has also invariably been disconnected. (This is the other

> option

> in Safely Remove Hardware: "SpeedTouch USB ADSL PPP" - but I do not select

> it.)

>

> I then have to manually reconnect to the internet, and sometimes it won't

> even do this till after restart.

>

> (Windows XP home edition with SP3)

 

Are they connected to the same USB port?

 

Try a different port if this is the case.

 

I think if you unplug the modem for a few seconds, then plug it back in XP

should find it again.

 

As someone suggested, if the modem and computer have LAN ports, use them.

[Guest cuyocksol]

Re: 'Safely Remove Hardware' of flash drive disconnects my broadba

 

Re: 'Safely Remove Hardware' of flash drive disconnects my broadba

 

No I'm using different USB ports........ I dunno if I have a different cable

I can use with my modem (LAN/Ethernet?), I can look...

 

But I don't see why this problem should be occurring. Why are both USB ports

deactivated if only one hardware option is requested to be removed?

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: 'Safely Remove Hardware' of flash drive disconnects my broadba

 

Re: 'Safely Remove Hardware' of flash drive disconnects my broadba

 

USB ports (sockets) are internally routed. Many motherboards have a

Single enhanced controller. So a USB 2.0 device plugged into ANY

socket will route to that enhanced controller/hub. Also there are several

USB1(.1) controller/hubs that are socket dependant. How the devices

interact depends on what technology they are and which sockets they

are plugged into.

 

To determine cause, you'd have to check the Power consumption and

the bandwidth used with both devices plugged in.

 

"cuyocksol" <cuyocksol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:8211D889-2AE4-46ED-A25F-432159FE41E3@microsoft.com...

> No I'm using different USB ports........ I dunno if I have a different

> cable

> I can use with my modem (LAN/Ethernet?), I can look...

>

> But I don't see why this problem should be occurring. Why are both USB

> ports

> deactivated if only one hardware option is requested to be removed?

>