Need help: Unknown USB Device Xp

4743hudsonj

cool, thanks alot, thought it might be a different architecture but wasn't sure.

whilst im here i need to sort another issue on yet another notebook, still quite old, i was gonna post another thread but you two seem fairly clued up.

this laptop has issues powering up, basically with the charger in (battery or no battery) the laptop starts fine, but take the charger out, press the on button and the lights turn on, the fan starts and you can hear it working but then after a few seconds when the screen is about to power on the screen, everything dies.

Now i should explain that if i start up the notebook with the charger, and then remove it, the laptop works fine, and the battery drains as normal so i dont think its a battery fault, my initial thought was the CMOS battery, but i know that this is a generalisation now and not all pc's use the CMOS to boot now (I think??? lol) but i have no idea what this uses and have no idea whether the charger would alter this.

if not, what do you think this is.

And you will be glad to hear its not my brothers so its not the end of the world throwing a bit of cash at it.

regards josh

gaming_guy

well as far as i know, the cmos/bios battery only holds the time/date & other settings in the bios.

have you tried leaving the laptop off and taking the battery out for 20mins or so?

going back to the ps3 linux, you will have to back up the ps3 hdd to a (fat32) external drive then select it to partition the HDD into 10gb and 50gb (if you have a 60gb ps3).

4743hudsonj

yeh i know that bit,

not to bothered about the data anyways as most the data on there is games ive sold or dont play because ive completed.

and about the battery, i thought it might be the case, i know in some modern comps the battery literally just powers the real time clock, and nothing else, but this laptops a good 4-5 years old (probably a year or 2 older from start of production) so i dont know how this would apply to what the CMOS battery would do.

And no i havnt tried that, would it work if i took the battery out whilst still powering the laptop from the mains or would i need to power it all down?

regards josh

-TangleFoot-

I suspect you'd need to power down the laptop completely. For one thing, taking bits out of a computer while it's still running is usually a very bad idea.

4743hudsonj

lol, good point.

So is it a good chance that this will solve the issue?

-TangleFoot-

Haven't the foggiest.

4743hudsonj

lol, good to know

gaming_guy

yes - power the laptop down.

its worth a try though!

4743hudsonj

ha worked beautifully

wish everything was that simple.