Do you mean the power supply of the External HD (which I just recently bought)?
This is getting weird; Now the computer (last 4 times or so) has started up fine, whether or not I have the External drive USB plugged in or not, and even with the other 3 USB devices plugged in. Bought this External Drive at Office Depot. Think it is beyond their 30 day return policy (at least better than Staple's 14 day policy). Hope this is covered under MFR warranty and can still return it to store. Randall On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Now I'm really confused - why would the external HD's power supply not be > >supplying its power?? What, pray tell, does all this mean as far as the > low > >power messages? > > I think you have demonstrated that your drive's power supply is kaput. So > the drive has to pull all its power over the USB. > > The drive needs more power at start up to get the drive up to speed. That > is why you only get the low power message when the drive is spinning up > and you have other devices also pulling power over USB. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
