Yeah I had this trouble as well with my card reader. Turns out the keyboard port are just too low powered to power i up. On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 05:55 AM, sr ferenczy wrote: > the keyboard may be putting out all the power it can (500 mA??) to the > USB mouse, therefore leaving not much power to use to power up the usb > flash drive. > > also, try plugging your usb mouse into the other usb port on your > keyboard, just to assure that the usb port is still working. > > > sandor