[ale] USB pluging causes instant reset

[cfowler]

Did you read info in regards to capacitors on the M810 leaking?


On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 23:18, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I should have put that in the first rant <doh!>
> 
> The mobo is (gag) a pcchips M810 and the case (which I am reasonably
> certain is not the blame at this point) is cheap Chinese version of the
> no-name brand.
> 
> As soon as I punched up M810 into Google and saw "PCChips" in the top 10
> returns, my tech/engineer blood turned to ice in my veins. They make
> absolute crap hardware. It is truly disposable stuff designed for the
> corporate cube farm.
> 
> Fortunately, the front mounted USB is not crucial to my needs so I will
> disable this one as well and cover the socket area with a "Powered by
> Linux" PC button.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 22:56, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > James,
> > For our future sanity, what is the mobo/case combo specifically?  Thanks,
> > Dow
> > 
> > 
> > >>> jkinney at localnetsolutions.com 02/17/03 22:32 PM >>>
> > This is the third case I've seen this on. A front mounted USB socket
> > seemed like a good idea. But under windows and Linux, plugging in any
> > usb device into the front socket while running will cause the box to
> > reset. I built 3 of these now (same mobo/case combo) and they all crap
> > out. The USB ports on the back are OK. Argh! USB keyboard on a
> > firewall/gateway machine means no client access (a very good thing in
> > many instances)
> > 
> > I pulled out the socket and the ground lines are all OK. The metal cover
> > is grounded as it should be. Stumped. Tired. In search of beer in
> > fridge.
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