KT266a and USB problem

[jonny13]

I have built two athlon systems in the last two months and both have problems shutting down with a USB mouse plugged in. I don't know if it is just with a mouse or anything plugged into the USB. When I go to shutdown it powers down and immediately powers back on. The same thing happened with two different boards from different manufactures. One was a ECS and the other was a DFI. It didn't happen to start with, so I am thinking it is something with the Via 4 and 1 drivers or something. I don't have the computer here, so I don't know what version I installed, but will find out tomorrow. Any ideas?

Jonny

 

[GrayWolf2000]

What type of mouse is it? I had a similar problem with my logitech usb mouse until I updated the drivers. It was an IRQ resource conflict.

 

[jonny13]

One was an Intellimouse Optical and the other was a Wheelmouse Optical. I installed the latest MS drivers on both, so that shouldn't be it. I can take a look at the IRQ's and see if there is a conflict. What is the easiest way to go about doing that, just going through each one and looking at the number or is there some other way.

Jonny

 

[DaiShan]

update your via 4 in 1's, there have been instances of usb problems with older 4 in 1's.

 

[mee987]

In device manager, go to View->"Resources by type" if you wanna see all your IRQ uses at once

 

[jonny13]

Cool, I will take a look at that tomorrow when I get up there. So, if no IRQ's are set to the same, then there shouldn't be an IRQ conflict, right? What could it be if it isn't an IRQ issue? It is just funny that I have had it happen on two board now and they are the only Via boards I have ever used. All the other computers I have built had Intel and I haven't had a problem, so I just figured it was a Via driver thing. Anyways, thanks for the help and I will check that out.

Jonny

 

[mee987]

note: you will have a bunch of devices using irq 11, windows (2k/xp) uses irq 11 to create 255 "virtual IRQ's" so that you wont run out of em.... I read that somewhere

so dont be alarmed when you have like 5 devices all on irq 11, they arent conflicting