Gigabyte mobo defective?

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Zed Rafi

Hello all,

i custom built a computer for my girlfriend a couple of years back, and have
received a lot of criticism because the computer has some abnormal behavior.

I suspect that the MOBO i used is a POS. It does not seem to tolerate
wireless keyboards/mouses. Initially plugged in 1 logitech cordless mouse,
and 1 wireless keyboard. Both devices worked fine initially. the mouse was
the first to start malfunctioning (unsteady movement of the cursor), and to
eventually stop working completely (yes i did try it on another PC).
Replaced it by another wireless logitech mouse. Same problem occurred. With
the keyboard, it was working fine for a much longer time than the mouse, but
then would stop responding momentarily (you type but nothing happens). It
eventually failed completely and stop working. It is very odd. BTW, no it's
not the batteries.

Another thing that really bugs my girlfriend is the fact that whenever she
uses the scroll button on her mouse, the PC speaker emits very faint nagging
beep...

Some guy at the computer store was telling me that gigabyte released a
series of mobos that were absolute crap and had a hard time handling USB
devices. They eventually solved the problem.... Maybe i got one of the
crappy models... The MOBO is a Gigabyte GA-7VM400M.

i have a feeling its the MOBO, but i'm not sure; maybe it's something else.
what do you think? what could i do, which programs could i run to test the
mobo???

thanks a lot
 
Zed Rafi, 10/4/2005, 10:31:09 AM,
Hello all,

i custom built a computer for my girlfriend a couple of years back,
and have received a lot of criticism because the computer has some
abnormal behavior.

I suspect that the MOBO i used is a POS. It does not seem to tolerate
wireless keyboards/mouses. Initially plugged in 1 logitech cordless
mouse, and 1 wireless keyboard. Both devices worked fine initially.
the mouse was the first to start malfunctioning (unsteady movement of
the cursor), and to eventually stop working completely (yes i did try
it on another PC). Replaced it by another wireless logitech mouse.
Same problem occurred. With the keyboard, it was working fine for a
much longer time than the mouse, but then would stop responding
momentarily (you type but nothing happens). It eventually failed
completely and stop working. It is very odd. BTW, no it's not the
batteries.

Another thing that really bugs my girlfriend is the fact that
whenever she uses the scroll button on her mouse, the PC speaker
emits very faint nagging beep...

Some guy at the computer store was telling me that gigabyte released
a series of mobos that were absolute crap and had a hard time
handling USB devices. They eventually solved the problem.... Maybe i
got one of the crappy models... The MOBO is a Gigabyte GA-7VM400M.

i have a feeling its the MOBO, but i'm not sure; maybe it's something
else. what do you think? what could i do, which programs could i run
to test the mobo???

thanks a lot
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I gave up on my Logitech wireless mouse because I was having similar
problems to you. My Microsoft wireless mouse has never had a problem.
 
I gave up on my Logitech wireless mouse because I was having similar
problems to you. My Microsoft wireless mouse has never had a problem.
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oh yeah? i i didn't mention it in my email, but the wireless keyboard was
also a Logitech...
 
Zed Rafi said:
oh yeah? i i didn't mention it in my email, but the wireless keyboard was
also a Logitech...
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So go out and by a cheap wired keyboard and mouse and see if the problem's
solved. If it is, you know it isn't the motherboard.

Cody
 
Hello all,

i custom built a computer for my girlfriend a couple of years back, and have
received a lot of criticism because the computer has some abnormal behavior.

I suspect that the MOBO i used is a POS. It does not seem to tolerate
wireless keyboards/mouses. Initially plugged in 1 logitech cordless mouse,
and 1 wireless keyboard. Both devices worked fine initially. the mouse was
the first to start malfunctioning (unsteady movement of the cursor), and to
eventually stop working completely (yes i did try it on another PC).
Replaced it by another wireless logitech mouse. Same problem occurred. With
the keyboard, it was working fine for a much longer time than the mouse, but
then would stop responding momentarily (you type but nothing happens). It
eventually failed completely and stop working. It is very odd. BTW, no it's
not the batteries.

Another thing that really bugs my girlfriend is the fact that whenever she
uses the scroll button on her mouse, the PC speaker emits very faint nagging
beep...

Some guy at the computer store was telling me that gigabyte released a
series of mobos that were absolute crap and had a hard time handling USB
devices. They eventually solved the problem.... Maybe i got one of the
crappy models... The MOBO is a Gigabyte GA-7VM400M.

i have a feeling its the MOBO, but i'm not sure; maybe it's something else.
what do you think? what could i do, which programs could i run to test the
mobo???

thanks a lot
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I doubt that your problems have anything to do with the
board being a Gigabyte rather than some other brand. There
is no reason why wireless devices would work worse on it
than wired one did, if the problem were the board. That is,
unless you have set the board to use 5VSB to power these
devices and the system has a power supply with insufficient
true 5VSB capacity. If tha is the case, move the 5VSB jumper
for PS2 and USB devices to the 5V jumper position- it may be
detailed in your motherboard manual or might be listed as a
wake-on-keyboard, power-on-??? (device) type jumper.

Any board might have random bios bugs though, update the
bios. Unless the "guy at the computer store" can specify
exactly what the problem was with the Gigabyte boards, I'd
chalk it up to urban myth. USB is now about a decade old
and there should be no reason why a major manufacturer
suddenly "gets it wrong".
 
I doubt that your problems have anything to do with the
board being a Gigabyte rather than some other brand. There
is no reason why wireless devices would work worse on it
than wired one did, if the problem were the board. That is,
unless you have set the board to use 5VSB to power these
devices and the system has a power supply with insufficient
true 5VSB capacity. If tha is the case, move the 5VSB jumper
for PS2 and USB devices to the 5V jumper position- it may be
detailed in your motherboard manual or might be listed as a
wake-on-keyboard, power-on-??? (device) type jumper.

Any board might have random bios bugs though, update the
bios. Unless the "guy at the computer store" can specify
exactly what the problem was with the Gigabyte boards, I'd
chalk it up to urban myth. USB is now about a decade old
and there should be no reason why a major manufacturer
suddenly "gets it wrong".
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i did buy and plug in a wired keyboard/mouse a couple of days ago. both work
faultlessly since then. There's only one thing: when the computer is
switched to sleep mode, and then waked up from the sleep mode, the mouse
cursor moves slowly and unsteadily (to the point of being very annoying),
until i reboot the computer. it starts to work fine again after a reboot.
 
i did buy and plug in a wired keyboard/mouse a couple of days ago. both work
faultlessly since then. There's only one thing: when the computer is
switched to sleep mode, and then waked up from the sleep mode, the mouse
cursor moves slowly and unsteadily (to the point of being very annoying),
until i reboot the computer. it starts to work fine again after a reboot.
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That is usually a sign that some (other) device in your
system doesn't wake up properly from power management modes.
I can't help you find which device it is, but often things
like network adapters are the culprit. Try newer drivers
for any/all devices and if possibly replace any suspect
devices if cost effective.
 
Zed Rafi said:
Some guy at the computer store was telling me that gigabyte released a
series of mobos that were absolute crap and had a hard time handling USB
devices.
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"Some guy" is often FOS. I don't suppose that "some guy" would have been
the same one to sell you a new mainboard/system?

Jon
 
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