X505 VP / USB device / problems while starting

[hk64]

Hi,

if there are any USB-devices connected to the notebook while starting the notebook, it doesn´t start. Interrupting the connection between notebook and USB device is one possible solution of the problem. Doing so, the machine will start properly.But there might be other ways for solving the problem?

Best regards
HK64

[kee-lo_]

Hi,

Had this problem with a DeLL, we sorted it out by buying a powered USB hub.

HTH

[Jacko]

Hmmm - strange....

Did you V505 always do this, or did it just develop this as a recent failure?

Reason I ask, is because I have an R600HFPD, and it always used to boot just fine with a Logitec Pilot Mouse in the USB port - for over a year, everything was cool. Then, sometime around January (I think) this year (when your post was made - but I didn't notice it till March), my VAIO stopped booting if the mouse was left plugged in.

I assumed it was yet another 'helpful' windows-update result (I'm getting used to this lately) which patched something and broke it.

Did you ever manage to fix your problem? I haven't. Nowadays I have to make sure the USB mouse is unplugged, or I won't get to the XP Login screen (and I can't even run a bootlog - just get a black-screen, doesn't even reach the Windows XP loading progress-bar). Funny thing is, as soon as the login screen IS reached, if I THEN plug in the mouse, everything is fine for the rest of the session. It ONLY matters if the mouse plugged in during a boot or restart.

Any ideas?

[hk64]

Hi,

as recommended by another CLUB-VAIO- User I changed the USB-Hub. Using a powered USB-HUB there aren´t any problems in may case and everythings works fine.

HK64

[Jacko]

Yeah, I think I will see if I can borrow one, to test the idea out first.

It kind of annoys me, a bit though, because the Logitech mouse used to work just fine - it just suddenly started playing up one day. Coincidentally, I first noticed it after rebooting from a Windows XP Update... so who can tell?

Even stranger, I have a Palm m505 PDA (in its own docking-station) plugged in to the USB port on my VAIO docking-station, and that STILL works... it was not affected by whatever it was that affected the Logitech mouse.

Wierd, innit? :smileygrin: