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01-20-2020 04:44 PM
Brand New 1 day old HP 27 all-in-one - with HP USB wireless keyboard and mouse - everything works fine except when I connect a USB flash drive or WD portable hard drive to another USB port the mouse and keyboard stop working / disappear / freeze - as soon as I remove / disconnect the flash drive / hard drive everything goes back to normal - the only software changes from as shipped product have been to remove McAfee and install Norton and install Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
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01-20-2020 08:25 PM - edited 01-20-2020 08:35 PM
Seems the problem is interference between my HP Wireless mouse and keyboard dongle and the USB 3.0 flash drive / Hard drive - I plugged the dongle into a USB 2.0 extension cord and put it on the far side of my computer desk (away from the hard drives) and everything works properly.
01-20-2020 08:25 PM - edited 01-20-2020 08:35 PM
Seems the problem is interference between my HP Wireless mouse and keyboard dongle and the USB 3.0 flash drive / Hard drive - I plugged the dongle into a USB 2.0 extension cord and put it on the far side of my computer desk (away from the hard drives) and everything works properly.