From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use. Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:23:06 -0400 Message-ID: <45F6CFEA.4060009@rtr.ca> References: <200703122212.l2CMCaxm032601@osprey.cs.arizona.edu> <45F5D59E.10304@rtr.ca> <20070313153252.GC22466@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ottawa-hs-64-26-128-89.s-ip.magma.ca ([64.26.128.89]:4440 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030763AbXCMQXI (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:23:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070313153252.GC22466@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Phil Kaslo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 06:35:10PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:> >> Off topic: do your USB ports power off when the system shuts down? >> Mine don't -- the +5V continues on them.. I'd love a tip on how to >> turn them off completely at shutdown. > > Most Asus boards have jumpers for the USB ports to select between +5V > and +5VSB (stand by power). The reason to provide standby power is so > that keyboards with power buttons can remain powered so that you can > turn the system on using the usb keyboard. If you want to power off the > ports entirely, jumper them to the +5V line instead which only has power > when the system is on. That's nice. But the P5B-VM board does not have any such jumper for USB, nor does it have any obvious combination of BIOS-setup options to accomplish it.