This may be the final ever upgrade for ol’faithful Sandy Bridge rig. 16GB isn’t cutting it anymore, and for $50 delivered I won’t be too mad if it doesn’t work.
@Taco_lad I don’t think it is. It’s a really weird one.
Keyboard doesn’t work from power-on until windows loads, so can’t enter bios etc. and sometimes doesn’t work after windows loads until it’s unplugged and replugged. Keyboard is plugged into its own dedicated USB2 socket on the motherboard, no hubs etc in the way.
I had everything except the keyboard unplugged, and it worked fine. So it’s something else plugged in at the same time that’s hosing USB across multiple ports.
@jpm@Taco_lad It could be a few things. Overpowered device smashing the USB controller, a weird bios setting that's gone awry, or a faulty USB controller.
Best way to tell is to do a CMOS clear. Wipe it out completely with the Jumper. It should tell you if it's hardware or a setting
@sortius@Taco_lad yeah I tried that, but individually plugging devices in seems to cause the issue to appear and/or disappear. I seem to have a suspect now though, it could be a dodgy cable on another port of all things…
Note to self, remember there’s USB2 hubs inside every few USB3 sockets because USB2 and USB3 signals are completely separate.
@jpm@sortius we have a really dumb one that hits at work, because the monitor is connected to the dock via usb3 and then to a laptop via usb-c, and the monitor has camera, speakers and mic as well as a usb3 hub in it - turns out to stack over 7 deep if you plug it all in, and if you connect an audio jack mic/headset combo the kb/mouse plugged into the hub stop working.
That monitor/hub combo problem happened with multiple laptop brands
@Taco_lad@sortius it may, but unless USB3-A and USB3-MicroB (not USB-C) have both somehow grown Thunderbolt support, and this Ivy Bridge vintage motherboard has too, then I don’t think that’s the problem.
@decryption as I said, if it works it works and if it’s not stable I’ll rip it out again. For $50 for 32GB of DDR3 it’s worth a try to buy me another couple of months.
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