Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard - USB troubles

[Viper187]

I recently bought a few IDE to USB adapters and they've refused to work on XP Pro SP1 or XP 64-bit. I believe this to be a board problem of some kind because the adapters work fine on a different board with XP SP1. I've had other devices in the USB ports before that worked, tried other ports, etc. nothing. It p***es me off to no end when something simple refuses to work and there's no logic behind it whatsoever. I tried updating the bios and that not only didn't work, but caused other problems. When that happened, I figured p*** on it and tried to downgrade the BIOS. Now my board is junk because the **** BIOS corrupted and all I get is black screen on boot. I want to determine whether to send the board in for replacement or if I need a different one. I've got a case with like 20 bays (Lian Li 2100B) and I don't want to be limited on how many goddamn devices I can have hooked up. I was using an old Promise PCI card to accomodate extra IDE hard drives before, but I can't run x64 with that, and I wanna run x64; Otherwise, WTF is the point in having a 64bit chip? I may as well have upgraded my AthlonXP system.

Basicly, I have 5 IDE hard drives, 3 IDE optical drives, and 3 SATA hard drives. I want them all hooked up in this bloody system! Plus, when I have some money to spend, I want a **** Zip250 in here too (don't ask me why), and maybe more SATA hard drives. Maybe even a Jazz drive just for the hell of it! hehe

p.s. I tried an IDE to SATA adapter and it worked fine on x64, but XP SP1 wouldn't even boot with it plugged in...even though the 3 SATA hard drives I have plugged into the NVRAID controller work perfectly fine!! What the hell!?

Edited November 10, 2005 by Viper187

[Andromeda43]

I wanted to try to run an external IDE drive off of a USB port so I bought this adaptor kit. (mail order)

It had the adaptor, a little modular power supply and an adaptor for laptop drives.

It looked great! But I could never get it to work.

I turned it over to a Super Guru friend of mine and got it back a few days later with this comment, "What a piece of crap!)

I sent it back to the seller (in California) and got another one back a couple of weeks later.

SAME thing! No joy!

It's laying on the shelf in my work room right now.

Want another one? I'll sell it real cheap!

Cheers!

Andromeda43

[Viper187]

I wanted to try to run an external IDE drive off of a USB port so I bought this adaptor kit. (mail order)

It had the adaptor, a little modular power supply and an adaptor for laptop drives.

It looked great! But I could never get it to work.

I turned it over to a Super Guru friend of mine and got it back a few days later with this comment, "What a piece of crap!)

I sent it back to the seller (in California) and got another one back a couple of weeks later.

SAME thing! No joy!

It's laying on the shelf in my work room right now.

Want another one? I'll sell it real cheap!

Cheers!

Andromeda43

heh. These are Cables Unlimited ones. I don't get why some of these **** adapters are still so expensive. Sucks to spend $60 on 3 cables. I just don't understand how they can work on 1 board and not work on another. The machine with the Asus board wouldn't even make it past the BIOS logo with those plugged in, until I reset the power. On a cheap old ECS board, however, the **** things worked fine. It's just strange.