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 ...

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.

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 ...