[Discuss] Problem with keyboard/mouse being disconnected at random under LINUX

[Craig Miller]

Hi Murray,

Sorry it took a new board, but it is good to hear that you have a stable
system now. Nothing more frustrating that an unstable system.

Craig...
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 2:40 AM Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:

> I gave up on trying to get the ASUS Prime B560M-A board to work with
> LINUX.  My dedicated Windows computer also had a new board, MSI B560M
> PRO-VDH WIFI and Ubuntu Live DVDs worked fine with it. So I switched all
> the hard drives between them. I did have to reinstall Ubuntu on the MSI
> board, but it has now been stable for several days so it appears that this
> will work.  I suspect that there really is something wrong with the ASUS
> board but whatever it is, Windows is more tolerant of the problem than
> LINUX but I cannot prove it.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions and help from everyone.
> Murray
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca>
> To: VLUG <discuss at vlug.org>
> Sent: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 20:38:57 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: [Discuss] Problem with keyboard/mouse being disconnected at
> random under LINUX
>
> Thanks to everyone at the LINUX meeting this morning for your help.  This
> is follow-on to the discussion this morning.
>
> There is nothing I could see in the BIOS that I could change to prevent
> the USB devices from becoming disconnected.
>
> I tried connecting to the on-board video (only port is HDMI) and while
> again this worked perfectly in Windows, it was if anything worse in Ubuntu.
>
> I then realized that the Video card in the computer is not a new one, but
> rather the same one I had in the old computer -- it had just been moved
> over to the new one.
> it is  an  ASUS ENGTX550 which uses NVIDIA chipset. It worked perfectly
> in the old computer until its motherboard failed.
>
> Other than replacing the new motherboard (but with what????) or going to a
> Raspberry Pi, I am at a loss as to what else to do or try.  The problem
> with the Raspberry Pi is that I think it will be difficult to move to a
> later OS and retain all the installed software and other settings plus it
> will be messy to try to include get all the hard drives from the new
> computer to be attached to the RP.
>
> Any more suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Murray
>
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