From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030763AbXCMQXK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:23:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030765AbXCMQXJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:23:09 -0400 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 Message-ID: <45F6CFEA.4060009@rtr.ca> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:23:06 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Phil Kaslo , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use. References: <200703122212.l2CMCaxm032601@osprey.cs.arizona.edu> <45F5D59E.10304@rtr.ca> <20070313153252.GC22466@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070313153252.GC22466@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@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.