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Old 13-06-2005, 20:58   #21
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Re: connection loss

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Originally Posted by 50420
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It doesn't as far as I know but normally the computer will only power down USB ports that aren't in use as it's part of power management.
thats what i thought paul... but during my 3years at Ntl tech support we used to get a few of these type of calls... even though the usb port was in use... xp still decided to shut em down.
Depends on power management I think and motherboard chipset. Some of the old VIA chipsets were terrible for USB connections.
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