USB Device Being Removed Playing Various Games
Mar 9, 2010
I have been experiencing this problem for some time and am now getting frustrated, Whilst playing several games, Halo 2, Burnout paradise and a few others my pc lags dredfully, to the extent that the games are unplayable, The PC gives a sound indication as if theres a USB device being removed then added continually which is what appears to be causeing the lag but i have not found any way to stop this can anyone help.am running vista home premium 64bit.
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