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  • June 16, 2000 at 3:14 am #2074033

    Dell Laptop and Iomega Zip drive

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    by jamesw · about 21 years, 11 months ago

    Anybody know why an Iomega USB zip
    drive connected to a Dell Inspiron PC
    (Win 98) thru a docking port would only
    allow a user to access the drive once,
    then freeze the drive, requiring the user to
    reboot his system? I have reinstalled the
    drivers, and even swapped out the Zip
    drive for a new one, and the problem
    recurs. Any ideas?

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    • June 16, 2000 at 4:21 am #3777479

      Dell Laptop and Iomega Zip drive

      by lizzy · about 21 years, 11 months ago

      In reply to Dell Laptop and Iomega Zip drive

      This may not be the solution to your problem, but we had numerous Dell laptops that had to be checked with a diskette from Dell to see if they were among the many that had defective memory installed. These were the Inspiron 3500 models. Good luck. Also, you may want to make sure that USB support is installed correctly and try another port if there’s one available.

    • June 16, 2000 at 5:06 am #3777456

      Dell Laptop and Iomega Zip drive

      by jc4991 · about 21 years, 11 months ago

      In reply to Dell Laptop and Iomega Zip drive

      Problem could be due to older USB chipset. Many high speed USB devices will not work correctly on these.

    • June 17, 2000 at 4:26 pm #3778208

      Dell Laptop and Iomega Zip drive

      by avidetto · about 21 years, 11 months ago

      In reply to Dell Laptop and Iomega Zip drive

      Dells have a bad habbit of not being up to day on the bios revision, also remove & reinstall the driver. Have you verified that the port is good with another usb device? Also most laptops have issues with the ir port, attempt to turn it off. On the Lat. series for example it will conf. with the pcmcia modem. Also check it on a second system, a “Baseline system”. -al

    • September 20, 2000 at 7:04 pm #3754939

      Dell Laptop and Iomega Zip drive

      by jamesw · about 21 years, 8 months ago

      In reply to Dell Laptop and Iomega Zip drive

      This question was auto closed due to inactivity

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