Subj : Re: USB 3 Issue? To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Thu Jan 23 2020 20:34:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > KM> I thought I'd try smoke signals. :D > The people near forest fires may have interference. Dang, I didn't think of that. > KM> Yeah, usually a reasonable guess. If you open 'em up they likely > KM> aren't quite the same inside. > > I should have cracked open the yellow ones! Thought I don't recall if > any problems with the blue ones and don't want to damage one just to > see: already annoying enough to have wasted money on the ones that > failed. ... There might be another way: the 'lsusb' command > displays a vendor:device code. I still have at least one yellow It does? > thumbdrive left. ...Test later: don't want that testing to lock up the > computer! Haha, gee, why not? :D > > Hmmmm! I'm recalling a failed thumbdrive (thought not which brand) where > > a recovery tool indicated the data went beyond the sector count - > > something like that. > KM> Yep, that's exactly what you'd see with a counterfeit. > > And as stupid as it may seem I will continue to > occasionally purchase cheap and potentially counterfeit thumbdrives: > sometimes just need to work a few times to 'get there'. Note to self: beat Barry with a stick until he learns better. You can get USB2 Sandisk 8GB and 16GB for about 4 bucks at Walmart. If you don't have any USB3 ports, well, the price is right. Too slow for everyday, but there ya go. > > Will continue to ground-before-insert just as a good practice. > KM> If only because *I* don't like getting zapped. :) > > So we have found out you're not into that cheap a thrill!! I am no fun at an electrocution. :P > KM> Only Marvell ports I have are IDE, nowadays decidedly unheroic. I > KM> like your musical choices, tho. :D > > The "Marvell" I'm half-remembering had something to so with the SATA > ports on the motherboard and pretty sure is on a diferent computer. Might have. These Asus boards use Marvell for IDE and Intel for SATA. > Need to check still - when go to the store tomorrow wil pick u psome > more Round TuIts. They sell those now? I should get some... > > KM> Yeah, sometimes undervoltaging/underclocking will solve a > KM> stability issue. > > Right: if manufacturer's defaults too close to the edge just to get a > higher rating..... Or when you've got something borderline-defective. Remember CPUs are batch-tested, then labeled according to how much of the tested sample actually works. Speaking of strange CPU Tricks: Lately realised that the Giant Server is functionally a Mac Pro. (Same CPUs and RAM type.) Since I've had no luck installing an OS, maybe I'll cannibalize it to build a Golem Mac. Step one: find an appropriate standalone dual-LGA1366 mainboard. > KM> Among the weirds formerly infesting The Closet... pair of > KM> nominally identical early Pentium motherboards. Pair of early > KM> Pentium CPUs. Each board would only speak to one of the two CPUs, > KM> and only when misclocked: the 60MHz had to be set to 66MHz and > KM> the 66MHz had to be set to 60MHz. W.T.F. > > I'd say 'mixed up labeling' bu that would make sense only if > you or someone else did the actual labeling of the two specific mother- > boards and CPUs. Nope, factory labeled. But those cranky boards gave me a longstanding hatred* of Micro-Star. I think the reason I tried over-and-underclocking was because back then, nearly all P75 CPUs were actually underlabeled P90, to hit the market sweet spot. Figured the same might have happened in the era just previous. * Fortunately for them, about the time Micro-Star started branding themselves as "MSI" their quality markedly improved, and they became one of my preferred boards. > > At least you figured out the problem: I pretty much go with the defaults > so don't fiddle with the overclocking/underclocking. > Same here. The New! Improved!! hardware reportedly overclocks stable to 4.5GHz, from its default 3.7GHz... while that's a pretty good jump, I'm not doing anything that needs it, so why have to deal with that much more heat?? and to really take advantage, I'd need to buy More! Expensive!! RAM, and it already has 32GB of the Good Stuff That Matches Current CPU Settings, and was quite sufficiently expensive. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .