army20 Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 Hey guys,My new iPod (g4) is not compatible with my 3 month old Dell inspiron 5160 Laptop. It work fine only after windows is loaded but it have to be disconnected when I boot up the computer or else the BIOS will stuck.Anyone Dell & Laptop user have this issue ?The Guy at Apple Support told me it is because I have SP2 on my computer. YA RIGHT !!!!!!Then He ask me if I love my iPod and I said yes but I don't like iTunes, I'm using Xplay. HO MY GOD!!!! That was even worse than SP2. That was the new cause of my problem. It stuck in BIOS Dump @ss, it has nothing to do with windows.I didi'nt told him that it was working perfeclty on my mom's computer withou any booting/BIOS issus.Here is what it look like when I boot up my Inspiron 5160. it stay in this position forever.here is a picture of the connections. There is a microsoft optical mouse in USB port 2 and my iPod in port 1.
IcemanND Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 try upgrading the bios, the current version is A07, your running A05. Also check the bios settings, I believe usb boot may be an option, turn it off if it is.
Tarun Posted December 23, 2004 Posted December 23, 2004 Sounds like you fell victim to Dell's "universal parts".They also suck because they had the audacity to rewire their parts to be incompatible with 'universal' parts (see here, which is just one of many examples), and then their parts cost 300% more to order from them than a 'universal' part would have. For instance, a $40 power supply costs over $120 from them.Sounds to me like you may have been hit with that. Go Dell... *eyeroll*
IcemanND Posted December 24, 2004 Posted December 24, 2004 @Tarun: Oh, yes Dell is the only manufacturer to do this, let's see Compaq, IBM, Apple, HP, Packard Bell, and any other has in the past or currently do the same thing.
army20 Posted December 24, 2004 Author Posted December 24, 2004 @IcemanND, I did the BIOS update version A07 but it's still jamming at the same (only) when iPod is connected to my usb port.
army20 Posted April 10, 2005 Author Posted April 10, 2005 SOLVED I had to disable a simple fonction in the bios about passing the control of usb devices to the OS when booting
army20 Posted April 10, 2005 Author Posted April 10, 2005 I've found it a long time ago, I was revising all my post yesterday
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