How to kill your PCI controller card

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Plug a flashdrive into a USB slot in your PC.

Reboot you PC.

Step back in horror as your PC fails to recognise your PCI controller
card. Watch your extra drives disappear as if by magic.

Take out flashdrive. Reboot. There they are again.

Works on my A7V8X. Not sure about the A7N8X I have.

Must experiment to see why it happens.

MK


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Michael Kenward Words for sale
 
Plug a flashdrive into a USB slot in your PC.

Reboot you PC.

Step back in horror as your PC fails to recognise your PCI controller
card. Watch your extra drives disappear as if by magic.

Take out flashdrive. Reboot. There they are again.

Works on my A7V8X. Not sure about the A7N8X I have.

Must experiment to see why it happens.
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USB and PCI card sharing same interrupts/etc. and using poor drivers?
 
I quite regularly reboot my system with my USB flashdrive connected
and without seeing any problems such as you describe.

Plug a flashdrive into a USB slot in your PC.

Reboot you PC.

Step back in horror as your PC fails to recognise your PCI controller
card. Watch your extra drives disappear as if by magic.

Take out flashdrive. Reboot. There they are again.

Works on my A7V8X. Not sure about the A7N8X I have.

Must experiment to see why it happens.

MK


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Michael Kenward Words for sale
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Peter R. Fletcher
 
USB and PCI card sharing same interrupts/etc. and using poor drivers?
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No drivers beyond Micros**t.

Will investigate interrupts.

I'm not really bothered. I thought it would be worth warning people as
much as anything. All too easy to miss that you have a flashdrive
plugged in when your drives go AWOL.

MK

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Michael Kenward Words for sale
 
Had a similar thing. . . brand new ECS MB which would spit the dummy (long
beeps from the bios) and not boot if a flash drive was in the USB port.

This worked (I think, didn't do any experimental testing to make sure):
disable other boot devices. Let us know if it does the same trick on your
board.

I'm also interested to know what would cause this. It seems to be related to
the "newness" of bootable flash drives.

TK
 
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