On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 13:50 -0500, RDB wrote:
On Saturday 31 January 2009 13:01:13 Craig White wrote:
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> Do you have up to date BIOS? I have found that I have to update BIOS on
> various computers to get the motherboard USB to work properly.
Hm.. that's a good point. I don't think I update the BIOS since I got it. Not
sure if I want to unless I have to, since there's always a risk that I end up
destroying the motherboard :)
So I am still left wondering what the error messages is about, if those USB
devices seems to work, particularly rather irritating is the long boot time.
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I would unplug all but essential USB devices (mouse? keyboard?) and
reboot to see if the long boot time is related to USB (my guess is not).
I would also recommend updating BIOS because it generally does fix
motherboard USB junk. I note that I purchased a new Acer Aspire One just
2 weeks ago and found that my 'edge' USB hard disk didn't work that well
in Linux, didn't work at all in Windows (dual-boot) and BIOS update made
things work right for both.
It's a crap shoot to be sure.
Craig