USB port/ipod issue
 

Okay, so I have an iPod 160 GB I dock with my PC via USB. Now, recently, every time I disconnect it, my other USB devices spazz out. They'll disconnect, reconnect, and sometimes one won't be recognised until I reboot the system.

I think I've done all I can with my iPod. I've reinitilsed it, I've changed the settings twice, and I eject it even though I technically don't have to (I've got it on whatever the plug and play setting is called). This does, however, seem to only happen with my iPod, so I'm nto 100% sure it's not the problem.

That leaves me thinking it may be a problem with my USB ports themselves. I'm running the same PCI card I got with my computer umpteen years ago, so it wouldn't be shocking if it was dying. On my old PC, I solved a similar problem with my Zen by deleting all the USB ports under Device Manager and then rebooting. But when they replaced my PC, they gave me a model with no keyboard or mouse ports, so those run off USB full time now.

Under device manager, I'm not really sure I can even tell the difference, so I'm not sure if that will work. Is there another way to acheive the same effect before I move on to other possibilities? Is my USB card fucked? Will pigs fly?

I tried google, but either I'm using poor phrasing or there's too much shitty information to really get a solid answer.

Get a new USB card, yours sounds right fucked. The amount of power being drawn from the PCI board to power the Keyboard, Mouse, and iPod over a great amount of time will nuke a PCI USB card. Thankfully they're cheap as sin and easy to install.

Do you disconnect it safely or just pull the USB cord out of the USB port?

You could always buy a USB hub.

First try to go Universal Serial Bus controllers under Device Manager. Try to update those drivers. Maybe that will jar something into working correctly.