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GM7HUD > PC 10.01.04 12:15l 103 Lines 4269 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Problem setting up USB Port
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Barry VK2AAB wrote:
> In My Computer/Device Manager/ the USB port is shown as being present.
How many USB ports? You should have one set of ports for the onboard USB1.1
and one set for the USB 2.0 card.
> In the BIOS setup for the Chipset Features I have USB function enabled.
That will enable the onboard USB 1.1 function.
> The next option is USB Legacy Enabled/Disabled What should this be ?
From my motherboard manual..."The default option allows the motherboard to
detect a USB device at startup." I'd leave it at disabled.
> In the PNP/PCI BIOS Setup there are the following;
99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of PCs running
some flavour of Windows 95 or later will work best when these are left at
the defaults.
> Plug & PLay Aware O/S I have set to Yes
Should be yes for Windows
> OffBoard PCI IDE card is set to Auto
Shouldn't matter. You haven't got another PCI IDE card installed have you?
If you do or dont the BIOS should detect it with this setting.
> confuses me as I thought PCI was one bus & IDE is the older normal
The option does exactly what it says on the tin. I know the number of
options may seem daunting but they are quite explicity labelled. The option
is asking "do you have a PCI card that provides more disk IDE ports?" This
could be just more ordinary IDE ports so you can have more disks or an IDE
RAID controller?
> The next one is Offboard PCI IDE Sec.IRQ
So unless you have added a PCI IDE card you dont want to change this from
disabled.
> The next one is PCI Slot1 /Slot2 /Slot3 IRQ Priority
Set them to the default
> The whole setup seems a total mess
> to my way of thinking
BIOS options grow all the time. Leave them at the default unless some piece
of software / hardware tells you to change them. They're only mess because
you dont know what they mean. If you dont know what the options do then it
doesnt matter whether they are in Enlgish or Japanese, they dont make
sense.
You're not the only person who doesn't know but many are afraid to ask. In
addition , the speed at which things change means it's hard to keep up
unless you are playing with stuff everyday.
> The mother board is a Gigabyte GA-5AA and it uses an ALi Alladdin V
> chipset.
> The BIOS is an American Megatrends.
You didn't tell anyone which OS. The OS can change the affect of BIOS
settings on the fly if it is Plug and Play which is why you need to tell
the BIOS you are using PnP software. OK Windows from the My Computer bit
but which Windows? I've got one of those and it has needed at least one
bios update in the past. Have you checked your BIOS version against the
info on the motherboard maker's web site to see if you need an update?
Here's something to try. Remove the USB2 card and its drivers. Reset the
PCI settings to defaults. Sort our Pnp, USB Legacy, enable USB onboard.
Reboot.
Check if the USB ports are shown in hardware properties. Connect up some
USB tat to the port and check the USB tat is found by Windows.
Then add the PCI card. When you reboot, WIndows should find the new
hardware. If it doesnt manual check for new hardware. Either way you should
get the request for drivers for the hardware. Install them and check you
now have additional USB ports in hardware properties.
If that works, connect up the USB device that worked on the onboard ports
and it should now work on the USB2 port. If it does, you can try a USB 2
device and check if you get the huge speed increase with USB 2 over USB 1.1
If it doesnt work then perhaps the card is faulty, try it in another
machine to confirm.
Like many of these problems, you need to make small incremental steps from
known levels of performance. Windows should make all this painless, you
should only need to insert the card and boot up and let Windows find the
hardware and ask for the software if it cant find it. Sadly this doesn't
always work due to poor hardware, poor BIOS, Windows bugs, driver bugs and
just the sheer scale of trying to test hardware on all motherboards/software
setups.
When you fix the problem let us all know so we can absorb your fix to help
the next person.
One final point, check that the card/drivers is meant to work with your
flavour of Windows before going any further.
73 de Andy GM7HUD
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