Re: Need to disable some USE ports
- From: "Carl O" <carlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:47:50 GMT
Hello
If dell is like most boards, any USB ports that are not physically wired
into the motherboard are connected via wires to the mainboard. the easy
solution then being to pull the wires out to the USB ports you dont need.
Sometimes theres a setting in the bios to say "only use 2 usb ports, or 4"
out of say 6, but I do not know if dell does that.
another soultion is to fill the ports you dont need with glue from a glue
gun. it should be fairly easy to remove if you wish to repurpose the
workstations in the future.
of course theres nothing to stop the people from just plugging in their
thumbdrive to the mouse port and unplugging the mouse.
"Hank Arnold" <rasilon@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OSi6vlQlFHA.3656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We are starting a rollout of some Dell GX270's that have, IIRC, 6 USB
> ports.
> these models have no PS ports for a mouse or keyboard, and thus have to
> use
> USB keyboards and mice.
>
> One thing that concerns me is the availability of USB ports to the end
> user.
> The ability of adding a USG device like a thumb drive is a concern.
>
> Obviously, I can't disable USB in the BIOS... Is there any way to disable
> the unused ports or prevent anything other than a keyboard and mouse from
> being used via the USB ports?
>
> TIA
> --
> Regards,
> Hank Arnold
>
>
>
.
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