Due to the fact that my ageing laptop lacks high-tech hardware components I have been forced to make minor external upgrades in areas such as a wireless adapter for the internet, a bluetooth dongle, an external hard drive, a mouse and the usual printer / scanner / digital camera and iPod connections! All this, together with the fact that one of the two usb ports on my computer is knackered has meant I needed to buy a hub which would allow multiple devices to be connected through the one USB switch <- Almost identical to the one shown here.

Now, I bought it brand new and I am experiencing a problem never experienced until I plugged this in to my laptop. As soon as I have more than one application running (for example if I am browsing the web and I ask to burn a CD or play music) then my computer will just switch off. Before it does this I can hear the fan go crazy and it sounds like its overheating. Could it be this is caused by my USB adapter (and I only think this because I never had the problem before?!)...

So do we think it the usb adapter or do we reckon that my laptop is simply to old and crappy to deal with this kind of technological update?!

Thanks

Steve

Can we assume that the burner is built into the laptop? Unplug your new USB switch and try the same task again. Let us know the results.

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Intel 6320
4 gigs ddr2 ram
160 gig sata
evga 8800 gts video card
vista home premium sp1 - 64 bit

OK, I have tried buring a c.d without my usb switch plugged in and I still get the problem, although it seems to get a lot further on in the process than when the switch isn't plugged in. This is getting very irritating as I have wasted about 4 CDs already this morning!