- Jan 13, 2005
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I bought an Apple Ultrathin USB keyboard to hook up to my Windows 7 Ultimate machine. It hooks up through a USB Pass-Through connection on my monitor (monitor has a USB port, and a cable that passes through the monitor and into the desktop usb, because the keyboard is too short I use the monitor usb) I also have an external Western Digital Elements HD. When I first hooked everything together it was working fine for a few days. Then something happened. Everytime a flash drive or the external are connected on the desktop USB port, they show up on the PC but freeze/don't work. Keyboard works fine. However when I plug in the External to the keyboard's side-USB hub it works perfectly. The USB mouse to the desktop works fine though. It's only the external and flash drives. When I disconnect the keyboard from the monitor USB, the hard drive starts working fine through the desktop and same with the flash thumb drives.
Any ideas? Which is canceling which out? Monitor pass-through/Keyboard connection?
Any ideas? Which is canceling which out? Monitor pass-through/Keyboard connection?