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Answer» G'day All. I'd like some help as a newbie. I have an old Sony Vaio PCV-150 ,12 years old that has 2 USB ports at the back. I was recently given a 2GB KINGSTON DataTraveler 100 Flash drive and 2 .0 Revision cable to transfer some files from the 4 Gig HD which is some 75% full. The "G" drive is only recognized when plugged directly into the USB slot at the back and not been attached to a USB 2.0 revision cable which allows the Flash to be easily removed or installed from infront. Because of the inconvenience of pulling forward the computer to remove the Flash drive I am wondering if there is any HARM leaving it in all the time . I have tried Googling the topic but without success. Thanks for any advice . I suppose it is ok to leave it plugged in. But i think you have to be really careful, because leaving it inside might be prone to snapping. (thats what she said!) you have a twelve year old computer that is quite amazing, i had an EIGHT year old computer but it died. i would suggest getting a new computer but if you can't afford that then i guess it's ok to be doing what your doing. and YES be carefull because it may snap off inside her. (WHAT!) I have an SD card that I leave in my laptop all the time as a backup drive. There is no harm in leaving the Flash Drive in 24/7. Just, because it's at the back, make sure you don't accidentally break it as these two sensible people said. I have 2 USB extension cables for this purpose on my older machine...handy. I modded the new case for 4 USB jacks on the front/side . Many PC manuf. don't even wire up the front USB headers on alot of machines they ship. If the MBoard has the proper jack it's relatively easy to hook up the front header jacks. Quote from: scrolljoe on March 04, 2009, 05:31:11 AM You have a PCI USB card installed in that computer, right? Otherwise, no 12 year old computers had USB ports. What, exactly, is a "Revision cable"? I was wondering the very same thing...I would add a Powered USB HUB. This will allow for communications and the USB HUB with the AC Adapter will power the device. Seen some issues with USB Extension cables and USB devices. A powered USB HUB that is not powered off of the USB port is the better way to go... I have a D-Link DUB-H4 that I use. Regarding age of system... if they say they have USB, they have USB... if they added a PCI USB card you could run USB on older hardware. Even as old as a later generation 486 with a PCI Slot and Windows 98 SE for example when the Pentiums were out with the PCI slots and some later gen 486 boards came with 1 to 3 PCI slots ( although not the common for the 486 platform) which was generally on early generation ISA 8 and 16 bit slots and sometimes a single VESA slot. Quote from: soybean on March 05, 2009, 09:07:03 AM You have a PCI USB card installed in that computer, right? Otherwise, no 12 year old computers had USB ports. It's entirely possible. USB 1.0 first came out in the mid-90s ('94 or '95 if I remember right). The Pentium II computer I built in late '97 had 2 USB 1.0 ports. My brother still has it back in the US. Still works. -=EDIT=- According to Sony's online manual for this model, it did in fact have 2 on-board USB 1.0 ports. http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-documents.pl?mdl=PCV150 |
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