Tag: USB
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Keyboard and Mouse Microstutters with a Dell Latitude Notebook
I’ve been having a weird microstuttering issue with my Dell notebook, running Windows 10. The symptoms are input from the keyboard or the mouse hanging for about a half second to a second every 1-2 minutes. When this happens, I am unable to move the mouse. Rebooting the system did no good, and I found […]
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Gigabyte OSD_Sidekick: “Please check if your USB cable is connected”
I wanted to find out what firmware my Gigabyte M32Q screen was running, and update it if necessary. The software used to do so is called OSD_Sidekick. Installation was a bit odd – it froze my PC for a few moments. But the installation did finish. However, OSD_Sidekick.exe wouldn’t recognize my M32Q, instead displaying the […]
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iPhone: Can’t Enter Recovery Mode
I was just trying to factory reset an old iPhone 6S, following these instructions provided by Apple. However, try as I might, the phone would just reboot. Turns out my notebook’s USB port I was using to connect the iPhone 6S for doesn’t provide enough voltage and is thus ignored by the iPhone. I think […]
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ASUS P5QD Turbo Mainboard Not Recognizing USB Keyboard During Boot
Today I re-installed my old PC for my sister. First obstacle? I obviously had changed the boot order to put the CD Rom Drive after the harddrive, making booting from my Windows install DVD hard, to say the least. I couldn’t change it because, for some reason, the BIOS refused to recognize my USB keyboard. […]
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iPhone not recognized by iTunes – Can’t Sync
For a while now I’ve had the issue that, sometimes, my iPhone would not be recognized by iTunes and wouldn’t sync. Sometimes there was an error message; sometimes not. Most recently, I would just get the Windows’ sound you get when you connect a USB device twice in a row. The iPhone then charged, but […]