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Setup & Installation / Odd problem with USB 3 driver
« on: November 22, 2020, 11:39:35 pm »
Out of curiosity I am wondering if I am the only person seeing a problem with the USB 3 driver.
What I am seeing is sometimes the USB 3 driver just shuts down for no apparent reason. By that I mean I lose the use of my keyboard and trackball and the only way out is to hit the reset button and suffer the inevitable chkdsk of the disks of the computer.
The last time it happened I was doing a chkdsk of a USB connected disk with several jfs partitions, it had completed one partition and was working on the next when I bumped the trackball and moved the pointer. The chkdsk operation finished but I was unable to move the pointer or use the keyboard.
A previous instance was when I was scrolling through a long e-mail the trackball and keyboard stopped working but I was able to restart the computer because it had a USB 2 add in card and I was able to get back mouse action by plugging in the mouse from my notebook.
As an observation all actual computing operations continue, it is just the keyboard and trackball that stop working.
What I am seeing is sometimes the USB 3 driver just shuts down for no apparent reason. By that I mean I lose the use of my keyboard and trackball and the only way out is to hit the reset button and suffer the inevitable chkdsk of the disks of the computer.
The last time it happened I was doing a chkdsk of a USB connected disk with several jfs partitions, it had completed one partition and was working on the next when I bumped the trackball and moved the pointer. The chkdsk operation finished but I was unable to move the pointer or use the keyboard.
A previous instance was when I was scrolling through a long e-mail the trackball and keyboard stopped working but I was able to restart the computer because it had a USB 2 add in card and I was able to get back mouse action by plugging in the mouse from my notebook.
As an observation all actual computing operations continue, it is just the keyboard and trackball that stop working.