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USB issues? Upgrade your BIOS!

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Topic URL: http://www.neurosaudio.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1199
Printed on: 03/24/2006

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Topic author: enry
Subject: USB issues? Upgrade your BIOS!
Posted on: 07/18/2003 8:01:01 PM
Message:

I've been having problems getting my laptop (IBM T30) to recognize the Neuros while my desktop worked fine.

Symptoms usually include the Neuros hanging and all sorts of usb-storage errors in dmesg.

I upgraded the BIOS on my laptop today and after that I could mount my Neuros just fine. Normally Linux ignores the BIOS of a system when it starts up, but there may be some firmware updates to the USB subsystem that are still used.

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Reply author: jmay(at)neurosaudio.com
Replied on: 07/21/2003 2:00:59 PM
Message:

Thanks for the info. I didn't know that the bios version could affect the operation of the usb. USB is a complicated beast.

Reply author: dvskyline6308(at)spymac.com
Replied on: 07/21/2004 02:34:47 AM
Message:

Ya. And yet, it's so useful. =)

Reply author: Chameleon
Replied on: 07/21/2004 7:43:04 PM
Message:

While itis true that a BIOS update might fix your USB problems, it really should be treated as 2nd to last step* due to the real possibility of lobotomizing your motherboard if anything serious goes wrong during the update...

* The last step being upgrading the motherboard or buying a new USB expansion card.

-- 'I switched to Vorbis and saved a bunch on my hard-disk space!'

Reply author: webkid
Replied on: 07/21/2004 10:24:15 PM
Message:

ROM Flash updates are scary things. That's why we all keep our Neuros plugged in during a firmware update, right?

Reply author: Cool4u2view
Replied on: 07/22/2004 7:36:07 PM
Message:

Yeah, but remember that BIOS upgrades sometimes don't fix USB problems as Chameleon mentioned. 9 times out of 10 for Windows users it will be a driver upgrade and for Linux users a kernel upgrade to fix the problem.

-Jeff

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