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Another one of those "power up my cab with one switch" questions
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krick:

--- Quote from: max8061 on September 20, 2006, 01:41:34 pm ---
Be careful here. I have one also, but it only works for some machines... MANY motherboards today continue to provide power to the USB ports even when shutdown. You can fix this on some in the BIOS, but not all. I've got two boards that won't work with this out of the box. I had hack the USB cable to provide the +5V from a molex instead of the USB port.


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All of the motherboards I've worked with in the last few years have jumpers on the board to enable/disable USB standby power.  So if you don't see a BIOS option, check on the board itself.  Usually, there is a jumper for every pair of ports.  On the computer I'm using right now, the jumpers came configured so that the I/O panel USB ports had +5v standby power, but the front ports did not.

There's often a similar jumper for keyboard standby power.  Having that enabled will cause strange problems with an I-PAC or J-PAC.  If you value your sanity, make sure it's disabled.
max8061:
Good call, I didn't even think to check for jumpers too.  :angry:
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