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USB drives turn flaky
On an ASUS P4P800S motherboard (2004) the four back-
panel USB jacks now seem unreliable (intermittent.) The two front panel USB jacks appear OK. 1. Is this a known problem with Asus MBs? (Perhaps few people still run a year 2004 mb.) 2. Is my simplest solution simply to add a PCI card with multiple USB jacks? -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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USB drives turn flaky
On 12/28/2010 07:16 AM, Don Phillipson wrote:
On an ASUS P4P800S motherboard (2004) the four back- panel USB jacks now seem unreliable (intermittent.) The two front panel USB jacks appear OK. 1. Is this a known problem with Asus MBs? (Perhaps few people still run a year 2004 mb.) 2. Is my simplest solution simply to add a PCI card with multiple USB jacks? Anything can fail and your problem could happen with any mobo. Your solution was a good one...I would not worry about it |
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USB drives turn flaky
Don Phillipson wrote:
On an ASUS P4P800S motherboard (2004) the four back- panel USB jacks now seem unreliable (intermittent.) The two front panel USB jacks appear OK. 1. Is this a known problem with Asus MBs? (Perhaps few people still run a year 2004 mb.) 2. Is my simplest solution simply to add a PCI card with multiple USB jacks? I would install that PCI USB2 card, before you blow it up :-) With the known issue, of the ICH5 being sensitive to static, if there were any signs of trouble, I'd switch to the PCI card. Just to be safe. (Note - this page doesn't render well any more, but the text in it is still relevant. It's the only public admission that there is a problem with ICH5, and Intel has never provided similar info.) http://web.archive.org/web/200604301...AQ/FAQ_456.htm And my P4C800-E Deluxe, with ICH5R, still runs. And one of the reasons for that, could be that I don't use the USB ports. Similarly, the front panel USB ports aren't wired up. It's about as protected as I can make it. Paul |
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