On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 02:12:51PM +0100, eckinator scripsit: > 2010/2/14 Brian Walters <supera1...@fastmail.fm>: > > Having just spent the better part of three days sorting out the monitor > > and external drives and loading up my applications, I don't think I > > could face the prospect of going through that again. I'll try to sort > > out the USB issue but I can work with it as it is, if I have to. > > you wouldnt have to if you swap the drive to a hopefully fault free > identical computer =) > could be you're just on the bad end of tolerance build up > i tend to rule out an operating system problem since it can be > eliminiated by a change of signal path
Could very easily be a BIOS issue, though. Especially if it's a relatively new release of motherboard. > you could have dave's cross check by popping in a usb port card > at any rate i wouldnt let the issue go at this point Yup. If the USB traces are that far off spec on the mother board there's no telling what else is wrong. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.