USB device faliures


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by Jservheen » Mon Dec 17, 2012 12:19 am
I recently got a pi, and I have been trying to use my usb keyboard and mouse, but I have a strange problem where any usb device plugged into the pi will spontaneously stop working between 30 seconds and 2 minutes after I plug it in. The devices are all rated under 500 ma and I am using an apple iPad charger rated 2.1 amps. Also I have an 8 gb sd card with raspbian. Please help :?
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by madmaxed » Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:41 am
Same here. Have a 256MB pi that works great. Just got a 512MB one. Same exact hardware plugged in and it stops working. Will work for a time, but as soon as the processor gets a load it locks up.
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by jamesh » Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:54 am
Please make sure you are using the latest version of the distro. Also, you may need to force the device to use a particular USB speed - information on the Wiki about that I think - or there is the USB Redux thread here.
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by Jservheen » Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:43 am
Well, I found a solution. My solution involves putting a fan over the pi to cool it off. Problem solved! :D
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by jamesh » Sun Mar 24, 2013 8:52 am
Jservheen wrote:Well, I found a solution. My solution involves putting a fan over the pi to cool it off. Problem solved! :D


That would imply there is something wrong with the Raspi...it should never overheat in this way.
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by gordon77 » Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:12 am
Does this suggest you are drawing too much current through it ?

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