Posted: 11/27/2008 5:40:15 PM EDT
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Ok, I am starting to get pissed.
I started building this thing awhile back, and then finnaly finished it, its nothing special, just a basic computer. Made for storing and sorting music and surfin the web. I for some reason cannot get the USB ports to work, THe motherboard is an EPOX nForce3 with an AMD64 2.41 ghz and 1GB ram. Prety basic and simple. running XP. I am tired of fighting with this thing. It has 4 USB ports on the board in the rear of the computer and 4 internal ones that are connected to the front of the box. Nothing works, I have tried everything I can think of, I am willing to try almost anything at this point. maybe even let in remote access. I'm tired of fighting with this. Its kinda useless without the USB ports for my music. 2nd issue With memory added too. Ok when I installed windows on this machine it didnt take up mush space, I right click on the C drive-properties and it says 8.32 GB used. When I look at the cdrive and highlite all items and right click properties- it says the total data is only 4.97. Somewhere in here is 3+GB that doesnt appear, (yes I can see the hidden folders.) |
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Drivers are loaded. No problems there, when I plug a device in I get a pop up box stating windows doesnt recognice the device. Wait.. are you having problems with the usb ports, or the devices being plugged in to the ports? +1, is the device being plugged having problems or the ports? Because if its the ports, the USB controller is fked. Test all ports using a USB flash drive. If that works, then u should have no problems with the USB ports, only the device. |
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Drivers are loaded. No problems there, when I plug a device in I get a pop up box stating windows doesnt recognice the device. Wait.. are you having problems with the usb ports, or the devices being plugged in to the ports? +1, is the device being plugged having problems or the ports? Because if its the ports, the USB controller is fked. Test all ports using a USB flash drive. If that works, then u should have no problems with the USB ports, only the device. Not working with the thumb drive. |
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So, you're having problems with usb ports, but the device manager says there are no problems with the usb ports? how is the usb setup in the bios? +1 are the USB ports set up in the BIOS? Have you tried anything other than a thumb drive? What about a USB mouse or other device? |
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For the USB problem, I vote for a short somewhere in your build. Unmount the mobo and check to make sure all the standoffs lineup and make sure there aren't any extras mucking things up. Then check to make sure your I/O shield is installed correctly.
For the HDD "issue" I would say the unaccounted portion is due to system files like the pagefile and system restore folder. |
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The initial test items were a USB mouse, and a USB keyboard. No luck. Tried the jumpdrive and an external hard drive too, no luck either. updated OP with mem question too. Rather do that then start another thread. Your southbridge's USB controller is whacked. |
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2nd issue With memory added too. Ok when I installed windows on this machine it didnt take up mush space, I right click on the C drive-properties and it says 8.32 GB used. When I look at the cdrive and highlite all items and right click properties- it says the total data is only 4.97. Somewhere in here is 3+GB that doesnt appear, (yes I can see the hidden folders.) I wouldn't worry about that. It's the way Windows reads the HD. I have a 160gb Drive and only 149 is the total size. |
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2nd issue With memory added too. Ok when I installed windows on this machine it didnt take up mush space, I right click on the C drive-properties and it says 8.32 GB used. When I look at the cdrive and highlite all items and right click properties- it says the total data is only 4.97. Somewhere in here is 3+GB that doesnt appear, (yes I can see the hidden folders.) I wouldn't worry about that. It's the way Windows reads the HD. I have a 160gb Drive and only 149 is the total size. Actually, the is probably a technical marketing lie by the hard drive manufacturer. They'll tell you that a hard drive that holds 160,000,000,000 bytes is a 160 GB drive, when in actuallity a GB is 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. So a "160 GB drive" to be mathematically correct should hold 171,798,691,840 bytes or 167,772,160 MB. So the manufacturer claimes a GB is 1x10^9, but windows calculates size correctly, and thus you see the difference. You can learn more than you ever cared to know about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Definition |
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2nd issue With memory added too. Ok when I installed windows on this machine it didnt take up mush space, I right click on the C drive-properties and it says 8.32 GB used. When I look at the cdrive and highlite all items and right click properties- it says the total data is only 4.97. Somewhere in here is 3+GB that doesnt appear, (yes I can see the hidden folders.) I wouldn't worry about that. It's the way Windows reads the HD. I have a 160gb Drive and only 149 is the total size. Actually, the is probably a technical marketing lie by the hard drive manufacturer. They'll tell you that a hard drive that holds 160,000,000,000 bytes is a 160 GB drive, when in actuallity a GB is 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. So a "160 GB drive" to be mathematically correct should hold 171,798,691,840 bytes or 167,772,160 MB. So the manufacturer claimes a GB is 1x10^9, but windows calculates size correctly, and thus you see the difference. You can learn more than you ever cared to know about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Definition I know that the actual HDD is smaller than it is rated, What I am saying is that the HD properties showin data used is a few GB larger than the data shown on the entire drive added up. as for the USB, I know its giving power, My external HD lights up showing power, but doesnt do anything else. |
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I would bet on dead hardware. On my old comp the USB ports are going out. My keyboard and mouse will only work on certian ports and I cannot restart computer anything plugged into USB, the system wont pass its POST test.
I just build my new comoputer and all of the USB ports worked right the first time. Can you test your other parts with a differnet mobo? |
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I would bet on dead hardware. On my old comp the USB ports are going out. My keyboard and mouse will only work on certian ports and I cannot restart computer anything plugged into USB, the system wont pass its POST test. I just build my new comoputer and all of the USB ports worked right the first time. Can you test your other parts with a differnet mobo? Yes the other parts work fine on another computer. I know the USB is giving out power. but thats about it. |