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Number 3 solution is the tin foil around the USB3 cable end where it mates with the USB3 connector. Hopefully, the mouse receiver is more influenced by the proximity of it’s receiver than it is by USB3 interference. If the hood is grounded it will prevent radiation from the USB3 setup from reaching the mouse transmitter. In that case you could use a conductive epoxy to stick the conductor to the shield. Or, strip a half inch of insulation off a #24 gauge CAT5 or similar conductor and push under the cut in the outer insulator between the inner side of the insulation and the shield so it contacts the shield then strip an inch off the other end and wrap it around the foil.Ĭheaper conductors use foil for a shield but better quality cable uses a wire mesh shield. Be very careful not to damage the other conductors which run inside the shield.

If the extension cable is shielded, you could cut away part of the insulation to reveal the shield and very carefully stick a sharp pin through the shield and into the foil. A hood built out of metal foil should work but it has to be grounded. You could even build a small open-ended metal hood over the end of the cable end holding the mouse transmitter to allow it to transmit toward the mouse only. With the mouse transmitter on the other end of the cable and close to the mouse, there should be no issues. Number two is the short extension cable plugged into the USB2 port adjacent to the USB3 port. Number one solution is to use a corded mouse. Covering up those holes and preventing the escape of heat is courting hard drive failure.Ībout the methods. Furthermore, the hard drive has breather holes and must radiate heat. There is no way an electronics tech worth his/her salt would bring metal foil anywhere near that electronics without ‘heavily’ insulating it first. They have indicated that the foil is overlying electronics on the printed circuit board of the drive, inviting catastrophe. I have a high regard for Intel but that will no longer be the case if they come out with more absolutely stupid ideas such as urging people to wrap metallic foil around a hard drive. It seems they went ahead with their scheme with the attitude that it’s too bad for people with cordless mice. Anyone with basic electronics training would know that such interference would exist. USB3 technology is obviously trying to cram more data onto a base frequency that cannot support it by using modulation techniques that cause the interfering radiation patterns that affect cordless mice. They seem to be getting higher bandwidth the same way CAT 5 cable got it by fudging the technology. Their methods should work excepting the one using tin foil around a hard drive with an exposed printed circuit board…īefore I say more, the USB3 standard is very poorly thought out.

I just read it and I am fully qualified electronics/computer tech. I tried all methods as per the Intel White Paper - if you have not seen/read it.

#WD MY PASSPORT FOR MAC 4TB 2.5 USB3 PORTABLE#

So I have a £60 piece of hardware that I am unable to setup and if I do I am not able to use it as a portable devise with my laptop. There appears at this time to be two solutions - wrap the hdd in tin foil which freezes the mouse completely or buy a standard single jack-plug mouse - yet to try. When I plug the HDD into the laptop I have the same problem.

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I have another identical mouse I use with my laptop and tried that on the PC but had the same result. I was hoping to find a solution within the forum, but as yet not found one - even the first reference quoted above has nothing that helps. So far I have tried connecting the HDD and Mouse to the different USB2 and USB3 ports available to me, but the problem still exists every time I connect the HDD. In addition I was able to find 1 discussion concerning this issue - date April 2013 -īoth the above are close to my problem.

#WD MY PASSPORT FOR MAC 4TB 2.5 USB3 HOW TO#

Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreceated!

Whenever I plug in my 500GB WD My Passport Drive into the other USB 3.0 Port next to my mouse's receiver, my mouse disconnects and refuses to re-connect. I have a PC with 2 USB 3.0 Ports on the front, one of them has a reciever for my wireless mouse in and the other is empty. Mouse and WD My Passport Problems WD Portable Drives

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