XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-7, alt.windows7.general   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/8/16 18:36:6, Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   [you emailed me as well - if doing that, please say something like   
   "(emailed and posted)" as the first line.]   
      
   > On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:24:40 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I have had PCs that wouldn't boot if a USB memory stick was plugged in.   
      
   []   
      
   > I have sometimes had the problem if it not booting in those   
   > circumstances. But not always. It only happened about 1 in 10 times.   
   >   
   > The USB had drive has its own power supply, and it now sees neither   
   > that nor any flash drives, nor the printer.   
      
   Does _sound_ like failing hardware, though I'd like to hear from Paul or   
   someone similar whether software (or firmware, or whatever) could   
   simulate such behaviour.>   
   > It still sees they moust and the keyboard (otherwise I wouldn't be   
   > able to type this).   
   >   
   Are they plugged in to the same port (via a hub), or each taking up one   
   socket? (Though I suspect that's irrelevant; I only ask because my mouse   
   and printer are via a hub, mainly so I can use an extension lead rather   
   than being short of ports, though I am.)>   
   I presume you _have_ tried musical chairs with the ports.   
      
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   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   Do ministers do more than lay people?   
      
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