PLEASE HELP - USB disaster !

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I disabled ACPI in BIOS and this seems to have fixed the problem.


egroy@mailexcite.com (Amamba) wrote in message news:<c866021a.0405310713.ae45f9f@posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>
> I have a 3 yr old system with Athlon 1GHz processor and FIC
> motherboard with VIA chipset. Apparently these m/b are known for their
> poor USB. My system is freezing every time I try using either USB
> scanner or PDA. (About 30 min on average before it freezes with
> scanner, 5 min with PDA). I tried upgrading BIOS, VIA drivers,
> installing USB patch, playing with BIOS settings - all attempts
> failed.
>
> As a last resort I am thinking of disabling on-board USB via BIOS and
> installing a PCI USB card. Does it make any sense ? Also, the m/b
> currently is only suporting USB 1.10; would I get USB 2.0 with a card,
> or does it require additional m/b feaures ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eugene