Off Topic A question about technical issues!

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canary-dave

canary-dave

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A few weeks ago, my laptop installed windows 10 against my wishes but within a few hours and installing Google Chrome as my default browser, I was reasonably happy with it.

Just one problem, from day 1 my printer would not work. It had worked the day before on windows 7, but even using the installation disc that came with the printer, it would not work <steam>

I used a trouble-shooter programme provided by HP, but still no joy. I checked my "printers and devices" and it showed my printer as installed but off-line! <grr>

Yesterday, I had a brainstorm and unplugged my mouse and moved the printer usb to the port and bugger me, my printer sprang into life! Problem solved, the original port was obviously damaged somehow.

I plugged my mouse into the port where the non-working printer had been...and the bloody thing worked <steam>

Any of you techies any idea how, what or why?
 
At a guess, are they all the same standard of USB port? Some laptops/computers come with a combination of USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports. Perhaps part of the update effects the computers ability to run 2.0 devices through a 3.0 port? You may have inadvertently swapped your printer to the appropriate port, meanwhile your mouse is compatible with either?

Best guess I've got!
 
DHCanary said:
At a guess, are they all the same standard of USB port? Some laptops/computers come with a combination of USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports. Perhaps part of the update effects the computers ability to run 2.0 devices through a 3.0 port? You may have inadvertently swapped your printer to the appropriate port, meanwhile your mouse is compatible with either?

Best guess I've got!
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My knowledge is well short of being able to argue with you, all I can say is the ports LOOK identical, not that that means anything of course.

Thanks for your input! <ok>
 
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