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Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised.

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On 06/28/2018 07:39 AM, terryc wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Curt <curty@free.fr>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-06-28, terryc <terryc@woa.com.au> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:27:30 -0400 Jape Person
>>> <japers@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> My suggestion is late, and possibly not much of a
>>>> contribution due to my not having read the entire thread.
>>>> 
>>>> I have two motherboards which BIOS settings which allow
>>>> the front-side USB ports to be set for charging only. Is
>>>> there any possibility that such a setting is in effect on
>>>> your motherboard?
>>> 
>>> Idea welcome and I'll check it out. The mobo manual talks
>>> about option to enable/disable individual usb ports, but the
>>> reason(s) for this to be the cause for is ???
>>> 
>> 
>> They're a security threat.
> 
> I was thinking about why it would switch off on my machine, but
> OTOH I was once directed to go around a office and remove all
> trhe floppy drives(when floppy drives = sneaker net) for the same
> reason. that was an interesting period of office politics.
> 
> 

I thought you might have looked at the BIOS setup at some time and 
changed some settings with end result being that data was turned off 
on those ports. In some setups the default behavior of these ports 
is different when "legacy" is enabled and when it is not. Actually, 
the meaning of "legacy" wrt USB port behavior seems to vary among 
the manufacturers. I found that out the hard way once when I did a 
reset to default settings on one of the machines.

On top of that, the two systems I mentioned have a wonky "GUI" BIOS 
setup program (yes, so you can use a frikkin' mouse) which seems to 
have a mind of its own. I would swear that there have been times 
when a recheck of my BIOS setup showed that a value had changed from 
my last intended setup. Whether that was a failure on my part to 
actually save the setting or error in the setup program itself is 
not clear.

Why they did this GUI thing is beyond me, but I understand from the 
SimplyNUC people that Intel has informed them that they will soon 
discontinue use of this "feature". That may mean that it was too 
buggy to bother with, or that too many curmudgeons like me whined 
about it.

JP

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Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. terryc <terryc@woa.com.au> - 2018-06-26 03:00 +0200
  Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-06-26 03:20 +0200
    Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. terryc <terryc@woa.com.au> - 2018-06-26 18:00 +0200
  Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-06-26 08:30 +0200
    Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. terryc <terryc@woa.com.au> - 2018-06-26 18:00 +0200
      Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-06-26 22:10 +0200
        solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. terryc <terryc@woa.com.au> - 2018-06-27 15:40 +0200
          Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2018-06-27 19:50 +0200
            Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. terryc <terryc@woa.com.au> - 2018-06-28 09:00 +0200
              Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-06-28 10:30 +0200
                Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. terryc <terryc@woa.com.au> - 2018-06-28 13:40 +0200
                Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2018-06-28 17:00 +0200
          Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-06-27 20:00 +0200
            Re: solved Re: Insertion of USB devices not being recognised. terryc <terryc@woa.com.au> - 2018-06-28 08:50 +0200

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