Asus P5B Deluxe, slow boots, USB problems.. - Page 2

**stressfreesoul** · 07-12-2008, 11:44 AM

Have you tried uninstalling the parport driver?
Be very wary using registry cleaners. They can ruin your OS installation. I recommend extreme caution using any of them, make sure you back up the registry before you make any changes.

jonnex · 07-12-2008, 01:19 PM

Hey again!

I'm running CCCleaner as I type this, as it seems a good idea regardless of problems. But I have had a rather huge breakthrough, which I think (not holding my breath) has probably sorted the problem.

I was on my Vista partition, and looking in device manager, and I right clicked some of the USB hub roots and saw that they listed the devices that were currently drawing power from the hub. I saw my mouse and keyboard drawing power from one of them, and from another of them i saw.... the 'Unknown device' drawing power. So i disabled it. The unknown device immediately went away from the USB controller section, and I havent had the pop up since! So I guess I've sacrificed 2 USB ports, but to be honest that's no big deal considering the ridiculous frustration of having that pop up every few minutes.

So I guess the problem is solved, but unforunately that doesnt get us any closer to knowing why it was happening, which is infuriating in itself!

But really, thanks a huge amount for all your help with this. Feel free to give me any more ideas for solutions to the actual problem, if you can think of a way for us to find out what it is! It seems that it can only be some kind of hardware fault to me, in which case the only solution was to disable the root hub in question.

so thanks again :D fingers crossed at least i can use my computer without annoyance!

:D

jonny

**stressfreesoul** · 07-13-2008, 02:58 AM

Glad its sorted

07-12-2008, 11:44 AM	#21 (permalink)
stressfreesoul Inspector Gadget... Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Yorkshire/County Durham Posts: 1,230 OS: XP My System Blog Entries: 7	Re: Asus P5B Deluxe, slow boots, USB problems.. Have you tried uninstalling the parport driver? Be very wary using registry cleaners. They can ruin your OS installation. I recommend extreme caution using any of them, make sure you back up the registry before you make any changes. __________________ Finish the project. We'll buy you a new family.

07-12-2008, 01:19 PM	#22 (permalink)
jonnex Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 12 OS: Vista SP1, XP SP3	Re: Asus P5B Deluxe, slow boots, USB problems.. Hey again! I'm running CCCleaner as I type this, as it seems a good idea regardless of problems. But I have had a rather huge breakthrough, which I think (not holding my breath) has probably sorted the problem. I was on my Vista partition, and looking in device manager, and I right clicked some of the USB hub roots and saw that they listed the devices that were currently drawing power from the hub. I saw my mouse and keyboard drawing power from one of them, and from another of them i saw.... the 'Unknown device' drawing power. So i disabled it. The unknown device immediately went away from the USB controller section, and I havent had the pop up since! So I guess I've sacrificed 2 USB ports, but to be honest that's no big deal considering the ridiculous frustration of having that pop up every few minutes. So I guess the problem is solved, but unforunately that doesnt get us any closer to knowing why it was happening, which is infuriating in itself! But really, thanks a huge amount for all your help with this. Feel free to give me any more ideas for solutions to the actual problem, if you can think of a way for us to find out what it is! It seems that it can only be some kind of hardware fault to me, in which case the only solution was to disable the root hub in question. so thanks again :D fingers crossed at least i can use my computer without annoyance! :D jonny

07-13-2008, 02:58 AM	#23 (permalink)
stressfreesoul Inspector Gadget... Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Yorkshire/County Durham Posts: 1,230 OS: XP My System Blog Entries: 7	Re: Asus P5B Deluxe, slow boots, USB problems.. Glad its sorted __________________ Finish the project. We'll buy you a new family.