[SWLUG] is usb failure a premonition of machine demise?

[Steve Hill]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Mark Summerfield wrote:

> old so I plugged in a PS/2 keyboard and that worked, but the USB ports
> were "dead", and not even the network card was working. I rebooted and
> tried the gentoo system rescue disk; that started fine, but still no
> mouse and only the PS/2 keyboard.

All 6 USB ports on one of my motherboards have stopped working (they 
supply power and the OS can see the USB controllers, but nothing happens 
when you plug a device in).  The machine is still working fine other than 
that though, so I'm not too concerned - I didn't really need the USB on 
that machine anyway.

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