USB drives turn flaky

[Don Phillipson]

On an ASUS P4P800S motherboard (2004) the four back-
panel USB jacks now seem unreliable (intermittent.) The two
front panel USB jacks appear OK.
1. Is this a known problem with Asus MBs? (Perhaps few
people still run a year 2004 mb.)
2. Is my simplest solution simply to add a PCI card with
multiple USB jacks?

 

[philo]

On an ASUS P4P800S motherboard (2004) the four back-
panel USB jacks now seem unreliable (intermittent.) The two
front panel USB jacks appear OK.
1. Is this a known problem with Asus MBs? (Perhaps few
people still run a year 2004 mb.)
2. Is my simplest solution simply to add a PCI card with
multiple USB jacks?

Anything can fail and your problem could happen with any mobo.

Your solution was a good one...I would not worry about it

 

[Paul]

On an ASUS P4P800S motherboard (2004) the four back-
panel USB jacks now seem unreliable (intermittent.) The two
front panel USB jacks appear OK.
1. Is this a known problem with Asus MBs? (Perhaps few
people still run a year 2004 mb.)
2. Is my simplest solution simply to add a PCI card with
multiple USB jacks?

I would install that PCI USB2 card, before you blow it up

With the known issue, of the ICH5 being sensitive to static,
if there were any signs of trouble, I'd switch to the PCI card.
Just to be safe. (Note - this page doesn't render well
any more, but the text in it is still relevant. It's the
only public admission that there is a problem with ICH5,
and Intel has never provided similar info.)

http://web.archive.org/web/20060430...-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/FAQ/FAQ_456.htm

And my P4C800-E Deluxe, with ICH5R, still runs. And one of the
reasons for that, could be that I don't use the USB ports.
Similarly, the front panel USB ports aren't wired up. It's
about as protected as I can make it.

Paul