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Richard wrote:
I have a similar board, Neo2-FISR, Via chipset. I run mine at home and it does run 24/7, cable modem, never gets turned off unless I am doing some hardware work. No problems at all, though I have just started using 64-bit. I am interested in the USB problems as I also have some issues there: VMWare guest refuses to recognize USB port with Palm. Sees others, just not that one, not even with with little cajoling I am capable of. I have Enermax 431W PS. Could that be a problem? Not enough? How would I figure this out? I have seen some messages during booting process about "...over current charge..." on USB port 5. Actual messages follow: <3>hub 5-0:1.0: over-current change on port 5 <3>hub 5-0:1.0: over-current change on port 6 <3>hub 5-0:1.0: over-current change on port 7 <3>hub 5-0:1.0: over-current change on port 8 Is this saying my PS is weak? I always assumed PS was ok, but did not understand these messages. I queried the suse-linux-e list once or twice about these messages, but got nary a bite. While my googling skills leave much to be desired, I found nothing relevant there either. I have also had issues with USB not recognizing printer when hotplugged but I have a work-around, suggested by above list, and while a nuisance, it does work. Any thoughts? Thanks for considering, Richard
Well, it was more or less luck and still only assumption. I reconnected my USB mouse from a far away connector to a closer one to get more freedom through a longer cable. :-) But I then I realized that my mouse didn't work any more, and that even in the BIOS phase the red light for the optical sampling isn't working anymore. Therefore I assumed that this USB hub hasn't enough power. Using a different USB hub showed that in half of the time the USB mouse was working. But when connecting the mouse to the PS/2 port, the red optical light gets suddenly stronger than ever before... I also have problems with the nvidia graphic drivers in such a way that they refuse to start the X11 system because the power check fails. Sometimes they dont have this problem. I cannot predict this behavior (maybe depending on the room tempretature?). I'm having a 400 Watt power supply in my PC. And its not so good to hear that you have a 431 Watt power supply and still problems. Best regards, Klaus. -- Klaus Singvogel SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 E-Mail: Klaus.Singvogel@SuSE.de 90409 Nuernberg Phone: +49 (0) 911 740530 Germany GnuPG-Key-ID: 1024R/5068792D 1994-06-27