XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
On 7/11/2022 2:57 PM,
Carl@WhoCares.net wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 14:43:07 +0200, Steve Hayes
<hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
I'm running Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 3), and my computer
is frequently losing contact with USB storage devices.
Keyboard and mouse work OK in the same slot, but if I plug in a USB
flash drive or external hard drive, or even a printer it often doesn\t
work, and reports that the storage device is not found, or that the
printer is offline.
Is there any way of remedying this, short of getting a new
motherboard?
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. I have the same setup with the same recurring problem.
You should check your RAM, every year to year and a half,
for correct operation. I had two sets of RAM go bad on
the WinXP machine.
(Standalone test media, current OS is not a factor)
https://memtest.org/
There was one motherboard, which accepted 0 to 8192MB of
RAM, and if you installed exactly 4096MB (2x2GB), the
"USB Overcurrent" would put a notification on the screen,
even though LEDs on the USB devices remained properly lit.
This was an address map bug in the BIOS.
Check google for the history of your motherboard/chipset,
to see if that may be a factor.
The ICH5 seemed to have a USB latchup problem. If the
USB Power contacts on the ICH5 were involved, it would
burn a hole right in the chip (system = dead). But
other failure modes would give lesser USB symptoms.
The ICH5 should be heatsink-free, so the label can be read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I/O_Controller_Hub#ICH5
82801EB (ICH5) Base
82801ER (ICH5R) RAID
I had a board with ICH5R, and it's dead. It died between
one interval of usage, and a couple years later, attempting
to boot it. PSU was OK. Mobo was not. Not an overclocked system.
USB port behavior was "normal". It seemed to be a Southbridge
issue, but... no burn mark.
Paul
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