USB issues while playing games

I'm having issue with my USB devices when playing games (Lord of the Rings
Online, Team Fortress 2, etc), and only when playing games. I constantly get
the 'USB device disconnect' sound and then a 'usb device reconnect' sound.
Occasionally I will get a dialog box saying I should use the device in a USB
2.0 slot. All of my USB slots are 2.0 and powered. I have tried using
different slots and different devices, but the behavior remains the same.
Here is my hardware. All drivers are up-to-date.

Vista Home Premium w/ SP1 32-bit
ASUS P5E3 Premium@WiFi (X48 Chipset)
eVGA Geforce 8800 GTS 512
Seagate 2700.11 (RAID 0)
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
Logitech G5 Mouse
Logitech G15 V2 Keyboard
Multimedia card reader

Adam Bowers wrote:
> I'm having issue with my USB devices when playing games (Lord of the Rings
> Online, Team Fortress 2, etc), and only when playing games. I constantly get
> the 'USB device disconnect' sound and then a 'usb device reconnect' sound.
> Occasionally I will get a dialog box saying I should use the device in a USB
> 2.0 slot. All of my USB slots are 2.0 and powered. I have tried using
> different slots and different devices, but the behavior remains the same.
> Here is my hardware. All drivers are up-to-date.
>
> Vista Home Premium w/ SP1 32-bit
> ASUS P5E3 Premium@WiFi (X48 Chipset)
> eVGA Geforce 8800 GTS 512
> Seagate 2700.11 (RAID 0)
> Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
> Logitech G5 Mouse
> Logitech G15 V2 Keyboard
> Multimedia card reader

IMO, in the old world, the BIOS controlled the power to USB. With
Vista, it appears to me that USB devices *must* have the ability to
withstand major power deficiencies. Most pre-vista USB devices do not
have the ability to operate under the wide range of power availability
that Vista wants.

You might gain a "cure" for this problem by turning off the eye-candy
that is standard with Vista. Make Vista operate more like XP.

Q

I just wanted to let everyone know that the problem was with my media card
reader. I don't know why it is having problems when I play games. I suspect
it has something to do with the way Vista handles power to USB devices.

"Adam Bowers" wrote:

> I'm having issue with my USB devices when playing games (Lord of the Rings
> Online, Team Fortress 2, etc), and only when playing games. I constantly get
> the 'USB device disconnect' sound and then a 'usb device reconnect' sound.
> Occasionally I will get a dialog box saying I should use the device in a USB
> 2.0 slot. All of my USB slots are 2.0 and powered. I have tried using
> different slots and different devices, but the behavior remains the same.
> Here is my hardware. All drivers are up-to-date.
>
> Vista Home Premium w/ SP1 32-bit
> ASUS P5E3 Premium@WiFi (X48 Chipset)
> eVGA Geforce 8800 GTS 512
> Seagate 2700.11 (RAID 0)
> Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
> Logitech G5 Mouse
> Logitech G15 V2 Keyboard
> Multimedia card reader

Hi,

I have the same problem when I'm using a browser, IE or Firefox, when I
click on a tab, my mouse act like it's disconnected and, like you, I heared
the disconnect/connect usb sound, sometime just by scrolling on a page the
led of the mouse and keyboard are flashing.

I have the same problem on any port and sometimes even the keyboad stop
working at the same time.

I only have my keyboard and mouse connect on my usb port and it's acting
this way, it only started like 4 days ago.


"Adam Bowers" <> a écrit dans le message
de news:909B7D21-DEA5-49F6-A268-...
>I just wanted to let everyone know that the problem was with my media card
> reader. I don't know why it is having problems when I play games. I
> suspect
> it has something to do with the way Vista handles power to USB devices.
>
> "Adam Bowers" wrote:
>
>> I'm having issue with my USB devices when playing games (Lord of the
>> Rings
>> Online, Team Fortress 2, etc), and only when playing games. I constantly
>> get
>> the 'USB device disconnect' sound and then a 'usb device reconnect'
>> sound.
>> Occasionally I will get a dialog box saying I should use the device in a
>> USB
>> 2.0 slot. All of my USB slots are 2.0 and powered. I have tried using
>> different slots and different devices, but the behavior remains the same.
>> Here is my hardware. All drivers are up-to-date.
>>
>> Vista Home Premium w/ SP1 32-bit
>> ASUS P5E3 Premium@WiFi (X48 Chipset)
>> eVGA Geforce 8800 GTS 512
>> Seagate 2700.11 (RAID 0)
>> Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
>> Logitech G5 Mouse
>> Logitech G15 V2 Keyboard
>> Multimedia card reader

I had the same issue so i try disabling every usb device on control panel --> device manager without any luck.

At the same time, I started DiRT3 on window mode and, fortunately, i realized that something strange was happening.
Device Manager was flashing and updating contents so I discovered the f***ing device that was causing issues (auto connecting/disconnecting). On my situation, it was a device under the Human Interface Branch (HID) but I guess it can happen elsewhere.

After disabling that device, all the problems dissapeared.

Hope that will help you.