USB 2.0 Disabled w/AGP Card Installed - Need Help

[tangotracker]

I put this in the wrong forum, hoping someone in the troubleshooting section will have an idea.

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[montag451]

Is there a BIOS update?

 

[tangotracker]

Yes, well there was. I applied that. No dice. But that's my suspicion as well is that it is a BIOS bug and really doesn't relate to anything else. Unfortunately both SkyHawk and Acorp are both traditionally OEM companies, one a case maker, SkyHawk used to make all the Shuttle cases and Acorp traditionally has made the SFF boards. In the end it means neither really has any support to speak of.

It's a shame really, because NewEgg has these SFF's for $119 dollars and performance wise it screams. The max fsb on it is 233 but even with that, a P4 3.0 Prescott set at 233 hits over 10,500 in Aquamark.

I guess the question is becoming, can I live without USB 2.0-- which seems like it might be hard, awful slow movement to USB sticks and what not.

 

[montag451]

You could try adding a USB 2 pci card. See if that works.
I am sure there is a way around your prob though.
Are there any ! in Device Manager

 

[tangotracker]

I could but then that kills using a sound card. Only two slots, the AGP and a PCI.

I suspect that would work. Theren't aren't any bangs in Windows though because it's actually not activating when then machine POSTs. So basically Windows doesn't see a USB 2.0 Controlelr. The Intel chip itself shows up but only USB 1 support loads.

 

[montag451]

 

[montag451]

For information purposes, a PCI USB2 card would use its own BIOS.

 

[tangotracker]

Well not exactly. It would simply be a controller chip that would be recognized through the PCI bus and allowed a place to live, but then it would be available to Windows and the driver would load.


Which is all good, but it's kind of hard to trade good sound for USB 2.

 

[montag451]

Maybe, you could have a USB soundcard connected through a 4 port usb hub?

Not perfect for sound, but better than a silent system with good usb2 support, or a system with no usb support.