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In my experience, devices often do this when they are not self powered and are plugged into a usb port which is also not self powered like a non-powered usb hub. The computers usb port puts out a limited amount of power so when the device can't fully power itself windows sees the hardware but can't figure out what it is because it never gets the usb id (or another variant I've had is that it keeps detecting that I've added and removed the device before windows can get a lock on it) Hope that helps

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16y ago

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