USB Legacy Support (BIOS) and HP C4345 USB Printer

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Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B)

I have an old HP Pavilion PC model hp4088hk.

With USB Legacy Support enabled in the BIOS, and the printer powered on
and connected to the PC, WinXP stopped at the boot loader prompt.

I needed to either unplug the USB printer, or disable USB Legacy Support
in the BIOS, in order to enter WinXP.

Note that USB Legacy Support is required to use USB keyboard and mouse.

SO what's wrong here?

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Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B) said:
I have an old HP Pavilion PC model hp4088hk.

With USB Legacy Support enabled in the BIOS, and the printer powered on
and connected to the PC, WinXP stopped at the boot loader prompt.
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What does stopped mean? The system is hung completely? Does it
respond to keyboard input at that point (e.g. does pressing CapsLock
turn on the CapsLock light)?
I needed to either unplug the USB printer, or disable USB Legacy Support
in the BIOS, in order to enter WinXP.

Note that USB Legacy Support is required to use USB keyboard and mouse.

SO what's wrong here?
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Check the system bios for another option, to choose between
BIOS and OS control of the USB ports. Set it to OS.
 
With USB Legacy Support enabled in the BIOS, and the printer powered on
What does stopped mean? The system is hung completely? Does it
respond to keyboard input at that point (e.g. does pressing CapsLock
turn on the CapsLock light)?
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Yes, a total freeze! The keyboard didn't respond.
Check the system bios for another option, to choose between
BIOS and OS control of the USB ports. Set it to OS.
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NO such option.

The motherboard is an i915G one.

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Man-wai Chang to The Door (+MS=32B) wrote:









You may have problems with the onboard USB ports. There have been
reports of motherboards with weak power to the USB.

USB PCI cards are cheap, and have cured various USB problems for many
folks. Use the ports on the card for your printer/etc, but keep the
keyboard and mouse plugged into the muddaboad for BIOS control issues.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -
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Check CMOS setup and make sure hard drive is the first boot device.
 
Check CMOS setup and make sure hard drive is the first boot device.

I bet it's irrelevant, but I will test this one later.


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You may have problems with the onboard USB ports. There have been
reports of motherboards with weak power to the USB.
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That's what I thought and that's also why I replaced the stock 300W
Bestec power supply with an Antec SmartPower 400W. But it DID NOT help!
USB PCI cards are cheap, and have cured various USB problems
for many >folks.
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Thanks for the tip.

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