USB Slots are picky?

Hey all, I decided to plug in a usb mouse and keyboard into my laptop today and had some weird results.

First I plugged in the mouse to the single USB on the right. No problem, worked fine. So I put the keyboard in on the left top, and nothing happened. So I tried the left bottom - worked fine.

Then to test I plugged the keyboard back into the top one, and it worked fine. So I unplugged the mouse and plugged it into the bottom one on the left. So they were both on one side. And I can't get the mouse to work. I switched the keyboard and the mouse and still no mouse, even tho its in a different port.

So, I have a working mouse, a working keyboard, and three working USB ports... but I can't pick which I plug them into. Its more like I just have to pick the two that the computer wants.

Is there some port order with USB technology I'm missing here and never learned about? I just don't want to plug in a third device later and find that the USB ports have some issues and won't let me.

Cheers all!

 

USB ports can be picky like that sometimes - it used to be worse on XP. You'll find that once you reboot the problem might be gone completely or it will be happening on different ports.

 

Ah ok, thank you for the quick response, animal. I thought it might be something like that - just making sure it wasn't a had hardware issue.

Thanks again for the driver guide too, love these drivers.