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A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
drventure:
Thanks bender. It's coming along, albeit lots more slowly now!
Had a bit of a scare just a few minutes ago. My brother came over to check it out and EVERY SINGLE BUTTON suddenly started acting like a CTRL key! WTF!
I rebooted, but no effect.
Then I remembered, this particular mobo appears to leave power to all USB devices even when it's off. Not sure what's up with that because there is no WAKE ON USB that I can find in the bios, so leaving power on doesn't seem to be very "green" for a "green" motherboard. Put an email into ASUS about it, but we'll see if I get an answer.
It's a M3N78-VM in case anyone's seen any issues like this before or has an idea about the USB.
Anyway, cycling the usb devices solved the problem, so I'm guessing my IPAC got snackered somehow and needed a boot.
Still, don't like that at all.
drventure:
Another handy tidbit I thought I'd share.
I've read a lot of good things about those "SmartPower" strips that have a "master" plug, that, when whatever is plugged into that outlet is turned off, the strip turns off the power to ALL the other outlets. Obviously that's REALLY handy for cab builds.
The one I've see the most is this:
http://www.smarthomeusa.com/shopbymanufacturer/bits-ltd./item/lcg5/
But I rarely seen those for <35$ or so. That same company makes a single row strip that's cheaper, though. I've seen them online for from 20$ to 30$.
I was in walmart recently and happened to notice this Philips smartstrip, though.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=6528241
The list is 25$, but I got mine for 20$ and it was right there in wally world. No shipping or waiting.
At any rate, this things works a treat. I was really wondering how it'd work with a computer that NEEDS to have power fed to it while off (for the Wake on lan, wake on kdb, etc to work). No problems. And it's pretty small, too. Works perfectly. Power the PC off, everything else shuts down. Power up the PC (no matter how) and everything else comes back on.
The surge suppression element might not be all that good (the one online says it's rated at 1080 joules, mine says 1440, but neither is as much as the bigger smartstrip at 2250, though it's about inline with the smaller version).
Still, it might be worth checking out if you need something like this. I actually put a whole house suppressor in a while back, so I'm a tad less worried about that part.
Bender:
--- Quote from: drventure on August 23, 2009, 06:35:23 pm ---
Had a bit of a scare just a few minutes ago. My brother came over to check it out and EVERY SINGLE BUTTON suddenly started acting like a CTRL key! WTF!
I rebooted, but no effect.
Then I remembered, this particular mobo appears to leave power to all USB devices even when it's off. Not sure what's up with that because there is no WAKE ON USB that I can find in the bios, so leaving power on doesn't seem to be very "green" for a "green" motherboard. Put an email into ASUS about it, but we'll see if I get an answer.
It's a M3N78-VM in case anyone's seen any issues like this before or has an idea about the USB.
Anyway, cycling the usb devices solved the problem, so I'm guessing my IPAC got snackered somehow and needed a boot.
Still, don't like that at all.
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might it have something to do with it dropping on the floor?
drventure:
;D
Touche!
I don't think so. That was a week or so ago. Plus, I dropped the PC case part, not the CP, which is where the IPAC lives.
So far, I've been really happy with the way the PC case turned out, and with the AMD/ASUS mobo combo. And supposedly, it's quite overclockable, though for right now, it plays everything I've thrown at it except Alpine Racer.
I think my last foray into overclocking was with 486s, so it's been awhile :)
gryhnd:
--- Quote from: drventure on August 23, 2009, 10:12:42 pm ---But I rarely seen those for <35$ or so. That same company makes a single row strip that's cheaper, though. I've seen them online for from 20$ to 30$.
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Good find!
I picked up my latest Smartstrip SCG5 for the island build via Buy's store on eBay for $27 incl tax, free delivery at the time. Looks like they are charging $6 for delivery now though :(
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