[Tfug] USB bugaboo on Thinkpads

[John Karns]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Claude Rubinson
<rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> Assuming that this is the same problem that my notebook suffers, this
> is a known problem in the community.  I don't know if current

What model?


> ThinkPads also suffer.  It's not actually the USB ports but, rather,
> something in the motherboard.  USB1 works but USB2 doesn't.  I tried
> (and failed) to get IBM to replace the motherboard so my eventual
> solution was to simply disable USB2, falling back to USB1.  Not a big
> deal for me as I don't use USB peripherals much but maybe a deal
> breaker for others.

I haven't noticed a BIOS option on my machine to disable one or the other.


> This is the one time that I've been disappointed with IBM.

It is a rather surprising phenomenon.

-- 
John