Grrrrr
For the last several days I’ve had trouble connecting other devices to my computer. Mostly via USB connection, but also SD cards directly. Its not entirely at random, but it feels like it.
The pattern goes like this:
With a freshly rebooted computer I can plug in any device (my phone, ipad, camera, SD cards, etc) into the computer no problem and the computer will recognize them with no issue. This will seem to last for several hours with no problems, and no matter how many times I plug stuff in and unplug it and plug it in and unplug it……
At some point overnight (I don’t generally turn off the computer overnight due to using it to play quiet music as white noise to keep Apollo from having a snit over night noises) this changes. When I get up in the morning, anything plugged in the night before is still connected fine, but as soon as I unplug something I can’t plug it back into the computer. Attempting to plug anything into the computer at that point results in the single-tone “duh-duh” noise indicating failed connection, and the computer not recognizing the device/SD card/whatever. This lasts until such time as I reboot the computer, and then we start the pattern all over again.
My next step to try (tonight) is to try turning off the various scans that I normally run overnight and see if that fixes it. If so I’ll then have to try each scan individually till I figure out which one, and then see if I can figure out what setting to change to fix it. If turning off the scans doesn’t fix it my actual suspect is one of the 18 Windows updates that came in the day before this started happening……yah, that should be fun to figure out…….