USB port/ipod issue

[Kane Knight]

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.