Re: USB vs MPS hal issue

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Interesting. Do you have drivers for the USB chipset or chipset in
general?


I do have an update for this issue. I am working with an ITOX G4G100-N
motherboard and have all the USB chipset drivers for it. We did some more
regression testing and discovered that we were mistaken about it working
under XP Pro, we had the same isssues there. That changed the problem's
characterization quite significantly and gave us more options to test.

We found that disabling the parallel port via the bios resolves the issue.
We do not actually use the parallel port so that will suit our needs,
though I do intend to track this further. I suspect it is some kind of
conflict with the interupt or the IO Address used by the parallel port. If
I understand things correctly the MPS hal uses the APIC to assign all that
stuff so I don't know why we are running into this odd behavior.

Thanks again!

Will Cunningham
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