Hi!

I'm having a really frustrating time with my 2 week old Logitech dinovo bluetooth keyboard.

First, let me describe my home PC setup. I have an "old" machine running a AMD K6-2 on a FIC VA-503+ motherboard which has the USB riser card offering 2 USB ports. Operating system is Windows 2000 Professional. All relevant motherboard and logitech drivers are installed.

At work I use the same keyboard (why leave such a beauty behind :)) but hooked up to a Intel motherboard with a PIII 1GHz running Windows XP Pro. Once again, all relevant drivers running.

On the work PC this bluetooth runs without a hitch. But it's the home PC that's the trouble.

I cannot figure whether it is the USB port, the bluetooth hub, the Widcomm BT software, the Logitech software or the Win2K stuff that's causing the fault or whether it is in fact a very old faulty motherboard. What happens is that every now and again (say, anywhere from every 5 to 20 minutes) the logitech bluetooth hub will switch off. Reconnecting the hub to the USB port will not bring it back and only after some waiting time will I get the to start functioning again. The logitech hub is most happy with being connected to both the USB port and the keyboard port at the same time (keyboard port is an old AT with a PS2 converter).

I've just run "verifier.exe" to see which drivers were messing about, and it seems when this happens Windows2K uninstalls a few drivers, including "btwusb.sys", "hidusb.sys" and one or 2 others.

Anyone every experienced this with this product or any of these products?

When reconnecting the hub to the USB port I might be able to get the blue light to come on, but sometimes it doesn't. I have a Datafab smartmedia reader which powers up most of the time on these USB ports, but occassionally it just won't.

Short of upgrading motherboard and to WindowsXP, what can be done to get this running properly on Win2K on such an old motherboard?

I honestly suspect the USB port, but I'm not discounted Win2K as the culprit.