My PC is a P3 x 800mhz with 384mb RAM, 2 x IDE HDD and 2 x SCSI HDD. I have an Adaptec 2940U SCSI card, NVidia 32mb GeForce 2 PCI, AWE64 Gold ISA sound, 3Com ISA modem. The OS is Windows 2000Pro.
I have purchased a Sandisk USB CF card reader, which the computer finds but then immediately tells me that I've unplugged and disconnected it. If I put a CF card in the reader goes wild with error messages and tells me the reader is no longer there and goes into a perpetual loop of screen errors. I formatted the drive and loaded ME but this didn't work and I got blue screen I/O errors; I'm now back with 2000Pro. The reader works with other PC systems, with Win98, ME and 2000Pro but I cannot get it to work on my PC. The problem has to be with my PC and not the OS or the CF card reader. Can anyone help me with what might be going wrong with the USB ports on my computer? Would a new PCI USB card do the trick?