Gotta love plug and play stuff, you buy it, you plug it in and it says... No. Go read the instructions..

Why call it plug and play when it isn't.. you have to do this & that & 42 other things BEFORE the bloody thing works ! i've just spent the last 3 hours trying to get our new modem/wireless router to actually work - according to the box, it's plug and play !

Rant over.. for now !!

anyone else had any horrendous times with supposed 'plug & play' stuff ?
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lol Have you ever seen Just married with Britanny Murphy and Ashton Kutcher???? There is this hilarious incident with a Vibrator but the plugs are not compatible as they are honeymooning in France!!!! Just made me think of that. x

When USB printers came onto the market, I had the misfortune to buy one. It installed easily enough providing you didn't plug the printer in until after the drivers were installed. That wasn't the case after the PC had been switched off though, suddenly my printer didn't exist any more when I turned the PC back on. Every time I turned off my PC, I had to re-install the drivers on the next boot up for the printer to work again.

I also have a HP Laserjet on a parallel port which needs no drivers installed since they are standard in the Windows package. I have only ever needed to plug it into the parallel port and it works brilliantly first time every time.

So much for USB plug and pray as we used to call it.

What happened to speed and reliability? My ultra fast Relysis SCSI scanner used to scan an A4 document in seconds while my USB scanner now takes so long, even at the same resolution, that I can boil the kettle and make a coffee before it's done. Unfortunately, Windows XP SP2 doesn't support my SCSI scanner and more, it did before SP2 though.

plug and play on an apple G3 beige with USB expansion card with protools Mix 24. yep I first came across this strange concept years ago lol and since I've been amazed. I suppose the beauty is rather simple and as long as you install the drivers first and it's usually a few simple steps taking a minute or two, then your kit is ready for work.

When I first started with protools on the old beige macs, plug and play became the concept for the old digidesign mix systems and expansion boards before the USB data systems were implemented and then after that firewire started showing up.

I've only had one problem. an external floppy drive on a powerbook G3 lombard with a USB PCMCIA card. wouldn't see the drive until the firmware was updated.