amd athalon xp 2600+ system usb issue

[whatthe]

Hi

Have been enjoying pclinuxos on a thumb on my netbook and decided to try an install from the live cd to one of my desktops..however I could not get the cd to boot to gui..the computer posts as amd athalon 2600+..the live cd seems to get to usb and hangs up...it seems to do this with several linux live cds..>So I went into the cmos to intigrated periferals and changed the usb=v1.1+2.0 to 1.1 and the live cds boot to desktop but then the usb will not work...I was wondering if anyone had any ideas..is linux not compatible with the amd athalon 2600+? or its usb...the system appeared to work fine...just no usb..I did not notice a boot time code for usb..if the onboard usb is not compatiable or malfunctioning with linux would a PCI usb card work...any ideas would be helpfull..thanks for any
Cheers

[Old-Polack]

Hi

Have been enjoying pclinuxos on a thumb on my netbook and decided to try an install from the live cd to one of my desktops..however I could not get the cd to boot to gui..the computer posts as amd athalon 2600+..the live cd seems to get to usb and hangs up...it seems to do this with several linux live cds..>So I went into the cmos to intigrated periferals and changed the usb=v1.1+2.0 to 1.1 and the live cds boot to desktop but then the usb will not work...I was wondering if anyone had any ideas..is linux not compatible with the amd athalon 2600+? or its usb...the system appeared to work fine...just no usb..I did not notice a boot time code for usb..if the onboard usb is not compatiable or malfunctioning with linux would a PCI usb card work...any ideas would be helpfull..thanks for any
Cheers

The specific speed of the processor makes no difference, only the family of the processor. PClinuxOS is compatible with that processor and with USB 1.1 and USB 2.0. You may just have something broken on that MB. Does that computer support booting from USB? Did you have a USB thumb drive in a USB port when trying to boot the liveCD?

Have you tried doing the installation, then changing the BIOS setting once the installation is up and running? I'm running this installation on a AMD Athlon XP 2100+ in an old Compaq mid tower, running from a 1 TB external hard drive connected to a USB 2 port on an add in card, so would guess your setup isn't that much different, probably newer, if it has a specific BIOS setting for built in USB 2.0. (this one's from 2002) I run Linux on hardware older than this, without problems, so barring physical damage, or improper setting it should run just fine on whatever it is you are working with.

It might help if you gave the full specs for the machine in question, rather than just the little you already posted. The more you give, information wise, the more likely it is someone will recognize a possibly known peculiarity of the machine that needs to be addressed, and the proper settings to get it working for you.

[T6]

adding to that, i never had problems with usb ports, mostly i use via and nvidia chipsets, the real part that manage the usb ports on your system

what livecd are you testing? 2009.1  or .2 or any other livecd version like gnome

what model is the mainboard of your system?

you mention the cpu, do you have any specific concern about it, temperature, weird failures?

also, does that case has any extra usb port in the front?  sometimes those extra front ports doesn't work properly because they could be not properly connected

[whatthe]

Well...yes I agree this has little to do with pclinuxos 2009 except that it shares the common issue that I can not boot the system on this unit unless I toggle the usb switch in cmos from "usb= v1.1+2.0 to usb=v1.1...when the system then boots to desk top be it installed ir live the usb ports are not functioning..I do not know if the problem is software or hardware based...the system had xp and ports worked with the switch set usb=v1.1+2.0 but during a system scan with windows onecare the system rebooted and continued to reboot until powered off..I can not find the reinstallation disks so nuked the drive and attempted to install linux or boot a live cd..only to find the top 10 live will not boot until I toggle the usb switch..under the circumstances I am curious if the issue is related to a hardware malfunction or is software related..I have never experienced it before..my thought was that the system being designed for windows may require a cheat code when booting linux systems

[T6]

top ten?  you mean that you tested other distros with the same result?

what you describe is a hardware not working properly, possibly a psu problem but it also could be the mainboard not working properly

you mention that windows kept rebooting, this could be caused by many things, errors in hard disk, errors in memory or just that the install reached its limit

you didn't mentioned the model of the mainboard or the reference of the pc

[pirate]

running kde 3.5 and kde4 on this computer with the athlon 2600+

no problem with usb 2.0  or 1.0

[whatthe]

well...I suspected a boot virus of destroying windows via the constant reboots and oddly the usb malfunctioned at the same time..after nuking the drive the thing stopped rebooting but now I can not boot to desktop with linux unless usb 2 is diabled and then no usb..I am going to try a pci usb card and see if it works.. but will not hold my breath..at the rate I recycle I would be dead..I mentioned the athlon as I have only used intel thus far...cheers

[DeBaas]

USB drives are seen as SCSI drives. Is there a cardreader in your machine ? disconnect and test again..

[Refugee]

Almost the same problem. FIXED
I have an ex-windows2000 AMD 2800 and i had a similar boot sector virus on it.
It crashed to a blue screen "not rebooting" and when i swapped the jumper to boot from the slave drive it was also "virus-ed".
In order to get it to boot again i had to go into the bios and set it to factory failsafe default.
From reading here it looks like it was the drive bay mounted USB hub combination with integrated camera stick reader doing the same as the AMD 2600. It uses the same pin header as the front USB ports after the cable was cut off and replaced years ago. I then got a temporary operating system on and retrieved most of my old data.
I am now a new PclinuxOS user with a lot of reading to do on the same PC!!!