by Gabe Goldberg
Buying a new PC needn’t involve replacing all your older PC devices, no matter what the friendly store salesperson suggests. Though newer PCs often have only USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports, an amazing assortment of adapters are available to connect older sorts of plugs to USB ports.
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by Tina Gasperson
Did you know that you can get a USB stick with Linux pre-loaded on it, and run it as a self-contained operating system that makes no changes to your hard drive? As long as your computer is capable of booting from a USB drive, you will have no problem booting to and trying out Linux.
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by Tina Gasperson
If you use a lot of peripheral devices with USB connections, such as flash drives, Web cams, wireless network adapters, keyboards, and other input devices, but you don’t have enough USB slots built into your computer, you can get a hub to expand your system’s USB capabilities.
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by Tina Gasperson
Microsoft reports that most computers sold after 2002 are USB 2.0 enabled. USB 2.0 is the latest version of USB, also called high-speed USB because it supports devices that use the high-speed specification. Most new USB devices are made using this specification. If you plug one of these into a computer that is not equipped with a high-speed USB port, or one that does have a USB 2.0 port but is missing the proper drivers, you will either get an error message, or the device will work, but at less than its full capability. That would be a waste of your money – so it’s better to make sure your device capability matches your computer capability.
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by David Hakala
When you plug a USB device into a computer that just “woke up” from hibernation or standby, you get the error message:
Unrecognized device has been found.
Basically, the computer’s USB driver has not yet fully awakened. There can be a five- to 10-second period after the computer comes out of hibernation or standby during which the USB driver is not operating properly.
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