i was doing the same thing; but then i got a griffin powermate, and moved the soundsticks to the cube - no problems at all now. i now run my scanner and printer off a small, 4 port unpowered usb hug. works well. On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 02:35 PM, Ken Miller wrote: > I have the Soundsticks and seem to have this problem under 10.2.3 from > time > to time. Once I unplug and replug the problem is solved. I run the > Soundsticks from the back of a 17" ADC monitor.