I always seem to have an endless parade of devices in need of charging, especially right before departing on a big trip. Right now, on my desk alone, there are two smartwatches, one rugged ...

When you turn on your PC, a lot goes behind the scene, starting with the detection of connected hardware. When you have multiple external drives or USB HDD connected to a PC, the UEFI or BIOS will ...

Turns out some USB flash drive production tool installed its own nasty USB driver which wasn't compatible with Win7 x64. I took a look in Event Viewer and found an "mpfilt.sys" that was unable to load ...

I just got a generic 4-port USB 1.1 (unpowered) and I'm having some difficulty getting WinXP to recognize it on startup. <BR><BR>Right now I have a mouse, printer, and writing pad attached to the hub.

U.K. startup Quantum Base, Ltd. is one of a small number of companies betting on the benefits of quantum computing even without quantum computers. The six-and-a-half-year-old company came together ...

When trying to reinstall the Windows 11/10 operating system on a computer, or boot from an installation media, some users have seen an error – System doesn’t have ...

Various FireWire and USB devices can cause indefinite stalls in the Mac OS X startup routine when connected prior to or during the the boot process. In many cases the stalls can be obviated by simply ...

Ideal for full- and Hi-speed USB 2.0 interfaces, the MM8201 oscillator offers a startup time of 300 μs, a standby current consumption of 200 nA under typical conditions, and programmable frequencies ...

Thanks to the flexibility of Linux, it's possible to run the OS directly from a USB drive, but is that the right approach? Here are the pros and cons.

Some USB and FireWire devices can cause problems with Mac OS X startup when connected prior to or during the boot process. As mentioned in our tutorial "Startup fails (particularly after a system or ...