Windows 7: USB Output causing WIndows to Hang

I've been looking around a lot for this, and have found very little - but I don't think it is just me.

First, the important stuff:
Windows 7 x64, build 7100
AMD Athlon FX-52
MSI mobo, nVidia chipset (750a)
4GB of RAM
Wireless USB NIC (Linksys WUSB600N)


Now on to the problem.
Whenever I am transferring data FROM my PC to a device using USB (iPhone, or even uploading a file via my USB NIC), Windows will hang.

It's not a bllue screen, or a crash, but the USB connection craps out, the CPU spikes, and I need to hard-reset the PC, shutting down simply won't work. Though, I've not waited more than a few minutes for it to complete.

While not my post, this seems to explain the issue in more tecnical terms:
USB driver not working on windows 7 - microsoft.public.windowsxp.device_driver.dev | Google Groups

Am I crazy? I can't be the only person experiencing this.

If youve gotten things working, I'm all ears!
Thanks for any help in advance!

Just had it happen again, and all I was doing was trying to download the Win7 build 7232 iso in the hopes it fixes this problem.

It wasn't a LOT of data, but it seems anything steadily using a USB port is definitely crashing something on my system. I can't even shut down once the CPU spikes. If anybody has some ideas of how to troubleshoot this, let me know, or even get some sort of dump? Thanks!

Here's an interesting update: Although I had power control turned off for all USB, when I went into Device Manager and drilled down to my WUSB600N, I checked its properties. Under the Power Management tab, I saw that the 'Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power' was in fact checked.

I've unchecked it - will update the status if it seems to work. Will also try this with the iPhone.

UPDATE: NO luck. Thought it was fine, returned to my machine (while trying to download Windows build 3272 via P2P) only to find it frozen once more.

While similar its not really like yours i think. In that there were bsod, and it was in xp. I have seen it here. There have been 2 things i have seen
1-the correct usb driver was not installed or corrupt.
2- have also seen it where a usb cable has crashed every time a tranfer. I had this one.
Try re-installing the driver.

Hope this helps a little

Ken

Well I'll be damned.

And here I thought I knew a thing or two about computers

So, I look into it, and sure enough, Windows replaced my nice, working, Linksys driver with a windows driver - for the wrong model NIC.

Gogo Microsoft.

I've replaced the Microsoft driver with the Linksys and so far so good.

I wonder if I need to do the same thing for the iPhone...

I hope this resolved your issue I was just checking back to make sure. RE: Iphone it cant help to check to be sure.

Have fun and keep asking questions

Ken

I stand corrected - ran into the same issue.

I've since updated to build 7232 with no luck. In fact, it seems it is more pronounced now - though I admit that might just be me thinking it is.

But once again - with both the iPhone, and my Linksys WUSB600N NIC I get crashes whenever data is 'output'.

Is there some sort of dump, or trace, or anything I can run to get something off to MS? At least if it BSODed I could write something down, but the CPU spike/freeze makes it impossible to get any useful data.

You can check event viewer to see if there are errors listed relating to the problem. Just type event in search and click on it. then sears for the errors

Ken

One question I have is WHY?
In my years doing computer builds and repairs, the only time I ever used a USB-NIC adapter was back in the Win2000 days and earlier when some computers did not have a NIC of any type, and opening it up to temporarily use a PCI NIC was too time consuming or too dirty... even then with occasional usage, they usually crapped out on me within a few months and I would need to get a new one.
Anymore, if a PC does not have a built in NIC then I ALWAYS pick up a PCI or PCIe x1 NIC card. They are stable, they work well and I almost never have had one of them die, even with business 24/7 usage.

Something else I noticed is that cheap or dying power supplies tend to drop the USB voltage/power whenever the system voltage gets to be too much for it, or with cheap power supplies, when it feels like it. This may be another route to check into... get a voltrage monitoring program, something like SpeedFan and see if when this happens your USB or any opther voltages spike or drop significantly.

The answer is fairly simple - I don't feel like wiring myself for a cabled network, and WiFi right now is pretty strong. I could go for an internal PCI wireless-G/N NIC, but running on Vista this USB NIC was awesome. I see no need or reason to replace it now. I've had this NIC for at least a year now.

In regards to the power - I already knew about that one, and so it's running off of a self-powered hub, and is the ONLY item running on said hub. This is also how it worked with my Vista setup.

Regardless, the real issue is this: it's not just my NIC, but also my iPhone, or I have no doubt, any other USB device I plug in to Windows 7. If I were to plug in a USB memory stick and copy data to it, it would have the same issue I'm sure. In fact, perhaps I'll test this tonight, just to verify...

I did do a fairly thorough search of event logs:System, App, and Security (in that order), with no luck. I was really hoping for something a bit 'deeper' in terms of a dump - like I said, even a BSOD would be preferable because it outputs something to the screen, rather than just freezing my system.