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| sAxmAn 2004-04-17, 7:24 am |
| Bought a second hand PC for a friend the other day and it's got a problerm I
haven't seen before. On boot, the eject hardware icon appears in the tray
and the machine thinks it has a USB mass storage device attached. This
continues even after formatting the HDD and clearing the CMOS. There are no
USB devices attached at all, although the USB 2 pinheaders off the mobo are
connected to the front case ports.
Configuration: Pentium 4 1.7, 256 x 2100 DDR, SIS 651/962L chipset, ASUS
P4SC-E mobo, 20GB Western Digital as EIDE primary master and 2 ATAPIs on
secondary EIDE.
Grateful to y'all for any suggestions.
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| Maybe the front USB ports are connected to the wrong pins or even the wrong
header, try disconnecting them completely and see what happens.
--
Kenny
"sAxmAn" <heathsquare@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Bought a second hand PC for a friend the other day and it's got a problerm
I
> haven't seen before. On boot, the eject hardware icon appears in the tray
> and the machine thinks it has a USB mass storage device attached. This
> continues even after formatting the HDD and clearing the CMOS. There are
no
> USB devices attached at all, although the USB 2 pinheaders off the mobo
are
> connected to the front case ports.
>
> Configuration: Pentium 4 1.7, 256 x 2100 DDR, SIS 651/962L chipset, ASUS
> P4SC-E mobo, 20GB Western Digital as EIDE primary master and 2 ATAPIs on
> secondary EIDE.
>
> Grateful to y'all for any suggestions.
>
>
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| Will Dormann 2004-04-17, 1:24 pm |
| sAxmAn wrote:
> Bought a second hand PC for a friend the other day and it's got a problerm I
> haven't seen before. On boot, the eject hardware icon appears in the tray
> and the machine thinks it has a USB mass storage device attached.
When you double-click the tray icon and click Stop, does it give you any
specific details as to what the device is? What about the device
manager, if you view devices by connection?
-WD
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| sAxmAn 2004-04-23, 10:24 pm |
| Thanks for that, but I think I've got to the bottom of it. The machine has
a smart card reader above the front audio out sockets, which I missed
completely on first inspection. Duh!!!
"Kenny" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Maybe the front USB ports are connected to the wrong pins or even the
wrong
> header, try disconnecting them completely and see what happens.
>
> --
>
> Kenny
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> "sAxmAn" <heathsquare@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:40810d3c$0$10092$afc38c87
@news.ukonline.co.uk...
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