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may we know what device it is?<br />
if it is an external disk - you may have other problems with it
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may we know what device it is?
if it is an external disk - you may have other problems with it

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give me a few and I will get this closed <br />
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thanks!!!!!
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give me a few and I will get this closed

thanks!!!!!

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namewitheld &nbsp;-why not give some feedback ?
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namewitheld  -why not give some feedback ?

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I have a very expensive device that I am plugging in to a Win7 system with only 3.0 USB ports. The device is 2.0 and the computer is BSOD'ing all the time since the install of the device and driver. The vendor of the device says I should use a usb 2.0 hub on the PC because their device has issues with 3.0.<br />
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Does a USB port work that way? Can a 2.0 hub plugged into a 3.0 interface trick the device into thinking it has a 2.0 interface AND make the computer think the same?
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I have a very expensive device that I am plugging in to a Win7 system with only 3.0 USB ports. The device is 2.0 and the computer is BSOD'ing all the time since the install of the device and driver. The vendor of the device says I should use a usb 2.0 hub on the PC because their device has issues with 3.0.

Does a USB port work that way? Can a 2.0 hub plugged into a 3.0 interface trick the device into thinking it has a 2.0 interface AND make the computer think the same?

USB 3.0 Downgrade to 2.0?

Hardware includes cell phones and other digital living devices, tablets, computers, servers, peripherals and components, printers and scanners, gaming consoles, networking hardware such as routers, hubs, switches and modems, storage devices and security equipment such as firewalls and other appliances.

Hardware

A peripheral device is defined as a computer device, such as a keyboard or printer, that is not part of the essential computer (i.e., the memory and microprocessor). These auxiliary devices are intended to be connected to the computer and used in conjunction with it. Examples of external peripherals include mouse, keyboard, printer, monitor, external Zip drive or scanner, while internal peripherals include CD-ROM drive, CD-R drive or internal modem. Today's new devices, such as tablets, smartphones and wearable computing devices are considered peripherals as they can be connected and used on a computer system. The difference, however, is that these devices can run independently of the computer system.

Peripherals

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.