Thanks everyone. However on the dell laptop its an actual rs232 port. They used to include those. :-) I am thinking of trying a usb port to see if that works. It is all working nicely on a acer windoze vista laptop.But the machine I normally use for this stuff is the dell laptop. Regards Paul
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Chuck Harris <cfhar...@erols.com> wrote: > A customer's 'doze 7 computer got auto updated to 'doze 10, > and with that upgrade came a usb hub that timed out, turning > itself off.... the only problem was, the keyboard and > mouse were on that hub, leaving no way to signal the computer > to turn the hub back on. Ultimately, the customer found that > if he unplugged the monitor, plug and pray would restore things. > For a while. > > -Chuck Harris > > jimlux wrote: > > On 12/15/16 7:08 PM, Chuck Harris wrote: > >> Sometimes, when one is doing a long run that goes past the > >> usual power save times, the USB port will shut itself off. > >> > >> I believe that most motherboards have a setting in the BIOS > >> that controls the ability of the BIOS to power the USB port > >> down during quiet times. > >> > > > > More likely the OS configures the USB hardware. On Win 7 (but probably > also anything > > from WinXP on, if not before) there's a whole bunch of command line > tools (or you can > > use Device Manager) to deal with the incredible complex power state > behavior of USB > > devices, and more particularly hubs. > > > > > > devcon is the command line tool here > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272 > > > > More info at: > > http://www.fixedbyvonnie.com/2013/11/fix-usb-root-hub- > power-management-issue-windows-7/ > > > > and at: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817900 > > > > devcon is the command line tool here > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.