kotosof

Hello guys!

Have you experienced your non external device not working like printers or scanners?

If you forgot to turn it on before you boot you computer you will have to turn it off again to do the procedure since the computer doesn't recognize them.

Very frustrating.

So make sure you always power them up before booting your PC.

Wait. That's not just my advice.

If you forgotten it again, there's a way now to make it easy and not re-boot tour PC just to recognize them.

Right-click My computer, select Device Manager, then click refresh. Your computer now will refresh your hardware profile.

This always happens to us and most people don;t know this so I thought of sharing the idea. I've learned this tip from a friend of mine who saw me re-booting my computer just because I forgot to turn my scanner first.

bammer

Thanks kotosof for that tip!

homebrewer

Thanks for the tip, i have made a lot of trouble with external devices too, although it was a external hard disk not utilizing usb 2.0 speeds, it was very frustrating.

shiela

yeah it happens to me several times.. and thanks for reminding us here..

Plasma

Wow this helps me too.. Thanks for this post.

jack2009

I have a Window XP and it go well until yesterday... the computer sometime frozen and a blue screen came out : Memory Dump...
Sometime, when i start my computer... sometime like this come out...
" Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device" or "A disk read Error Occured"

Next when i start my computer also...i can hear a sound "tac tac tac tac" from inside of my computer...and also it keep saying "Loading" when it go into a window Xp loading screen at startup...wtf man...



Ok how to solve this problem? :( i cannot even can use my computer...