Time to re-evaluate my "expertise"
primesuspect
Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
I hope none of my clients ever sees this thread
I got an Abit NF7-S v2.0 about three weeks ago and I have had scads of trouble with it. I've asked shorty for some advice and he recommended killing APIC in the BIOS, which required a reinstall, and all told I've reinstalled about 3 times now, but one lingering problem has driven me nuts. I could not, for the life of me, get USB ports 3-6 working. I finally gave up today and decided to RMA the board since I tried every trick in the book, spent hours on various forums, read a million FAQs, and tried every possible combination of BIOS and driver versions.
So, when I went to take my computer apart today, I started unplugging all the onboard cables, and then I saw two USB ports above the SATA headers.
Can you guess where Uncle Primesuspect had his USB cables plugged into this whole time?
After unplugging the USB cables from the firewire headers, everything works like a charm.
I got an Abit NF7-S v2.0 about three weeks ago and I have had scads of trouble with it. I've asked shorty for some advice and he recommended killing APIC in the BIOS, which required a reinstall, and all told I've reinstalled about 3 times now, but one lingering problem has driven me nuts. I could not, for the life of me, get USB ports 3-6 working. I finally gave up today and decided to RMA the board since I tried every trick in the book, spent hours on various forums, read a million FAQs, and tried every possible combination of BIOS and driver versions.
So, when I went to take my computer apart today, I started unplugging all the onboard cables, and then I saw two USB ports above the SATA headers.
Can you guess where Uncle Primesuspect had his USB cables plugged into this whole time?
After unplugging the USB cables from the firewire headers, everything works like a charm.
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i bet when you saw that USB port you were like this:banghead:
Im glad you sorted it all out.
been there...
Good idea, but he threw his away.:o
Then, of course, when testing a mobo, it's always best to short out the board by leaving a screw underneath which creates a circuit between the board and the case.
You wouldn't happen to have access to a wildcatvp card by anychance? I'm curious to see how the card and the mb get along especially w/ the drivers installed. anyone?
csimon
ps: rather than re-eval your "expertise" perhaps you should pay a visit to an optometrist first??? LOL
haha, its all good prime, we all have those days where your constantle :banghead: maybe you just didnt have enough coffee in you to see them.
Computer just refused to work correctly. Keyboard was totally unresponsive and my OPTICAL mouse was continously clicking and bugging. I changed them into the USB ports, same problems occured.
I tried everything but determined that the motherboard must be on the way out, so ordered a new one. Just as I was about to break old rig down to fit new board, I had a brainstorm...
I had been playing an online game on the day the PC started acting up, the mouse got knocked onto the floor
I changed the mouse for my spare mouse and guess what the PC worked fine. Nothing wrong with the motherboard, Id broke the damn mouse when I knocked it off the desk. I thought I was so smart and techie too, it had to be the board, never figured it would be the mouse
I kept the new board because I didn't want to admit I was an idiot who didn't check the obvious.