Re: [ARMini-support] Occasional freezes.
- From: Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:36:44 GMT
On 30 Dec 2011 Ian Hamilton <Ian.Hamilton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <4bc2a74952.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 19 Dec 2011 Ian Hamilton <Ian.Hamilton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> It looks as though the USB system is locking up.
>> I've tried changing round the USB ports that the keyboard and mouse
>> use, and the only difference is that the Num-lock led now comes on at
>> start-up, but I still have to turn on the F-lock one manually.
>> What I've now belatedly noticed is that when the freeze happens both
>> of these LEDs go out. Am I right in thinking that this must mean that
>> it's a hardware problem somewhere to do with USB?
> It appears your USB ports are losing power which is why you cannot
> Alt-Break out of anything. If you try plugging the keyboard into
> different USB sockets do you get any lights from any of them?
I think I'm getting somewhere at last. I just had a freeze, the third
today. I've always so far had the mouse and keyboard plugged into the
back USB sockets, which is more convenient in my cramped workspace,
but I had an off-list suggestion (thanks, you know who you are!) to
try the front sockets. When this freeze happened, I took the keyboard
lead from back socket to front, and the keyboard came to life. I then
had to do the same with the mouse lead, and that revived as well. So
I'll leave them there, and if freezes continue, I think I'll just have
to get a new keyboard and mouse. At the moment, the only thing plugged
in at the back is the scanner, which I don't use a lot. So far, when I
have used it, it always worked. It'll be a bit of a pain having to
plug USB sticks in at the back; I may have to reorganise the layout a
bit, or perhaps use a USB hub; would this have to be a powered one on
the ARMini?
[snip]
> It's possible a USB device is triggering the fault. See if you can get a
> response from any of the USB sockets once a freeze has occurred.
Yes, so I don't think the problem is definitively sorted yet.
Many thanks again to everyone,
With best wishes,
Peter.
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