Asus P2B-S problem with USB

[jyt123]

Hi, I'm new here, this forum is pretty cool.

Ok here my question, I have a Asus P2B-S which is pack on every single
available PCI slots. I'm running two USB appliances, logitech optical
mouse and a logitech wingman attack 2, it run ok but most of the time
I have difficulty specially with the wingman, control seem to
desapear, it usually start ok then some of the control of the joy
stick start failling slowly, could it be the USB is not delivering
enough power.

Since I can't add an other USB pci card, I was looking around to see
what I would find.
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mvanross/asus.html
here a site that has a modification for it but it's a P2B-DS and
looking at my board I can see the resistor but it is not at the same
place then the image is showing on that site. Can I try it and see or
would I risk to damage the board?

What else can I do?

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[MCR]

Hi, I'm new here, this forum is pretty cool.

Ok here my question, I have a Asus P2B-S which is pack on every single
available PCI slots. I'm running two USB appliances, logitech optical
mouse and a logitech wingman attack 2, it run ok but most of the time
I have difficulty specially with the wingman, control seem to
desapear, it usually start ok then some of the control of the joy
stick start failling slowly, could it be the USB is not delivering
enough power.

Since I can't add an other USB pci card, I was looking around to see
what I would find.
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mvanross/asus.html
here a site that has a modification for it but it's a P2B-DS and
looking at my board I can see the resistor but it is not at the same
place then the image is showing on that site. Can I try it and see or
would I risk to damage the board?

What else can I do?

Have you thought about buying a powered hub?

 

[Patrick]

Have you thought about buying a powered hub?

I agree with the powered hub... USB is only able to supply 500 ma, and
is often underpowered, giving dropped out moments.

The DS is a dual processor board with different BIOS, and some other
differences, to support the dual processors. I have a half dozen of
them here, and assure you that GNU/Linux loves them! Also, they run
better, and actually compute faster on Linux than on any of the MS
environments, without memory leaks, and virus/w0rms... and lots less
overhead.

 

[jyt123]

some update on my problem with the usb, i have done the modification
that i was talking about and at first it seem a little better, but
then it start to fail again, so it is not the solution. As for your
idea of a powered hub, I will certainly try that too, just bought a
new pci firewire/usd card and a linksys powered hub, since i didn't
have a free pci slot unless i removed the network adapter i also
bought a linksys usb 10/100 network adapter.

so i will be going all the way usb, so i hope this will work, keep you
posted

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