Re: [H] USB Problem

[DSinc]

Joy for Grand-PA! You will survive, I'm told.
Duncan

On 07/12/2014 19:46, Steve Tomporowski wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I'll let everyone know how it goes. None of this would have happened if I had retained both my computers. I had to cut down to fit in a smaller space. My daughter has moved back home with her two kids. First time in about 10 years that we've had young kids here.

On 7/12/2014 12:31 PM, joeu...@chronic.org wrote:

I don't think you have to many, IIRC you can have like 256 devices?
I'd do just what your thinking. Plug the card directly into a USB port,
skip the hub.
Hubs can be cheesy, quality-wise. Tripplite makes some great powered
hubs.

Regards,
joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

"...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [H] USB Problem
From: Steve Tomporowski <didym...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, July 12, 2014 11:15 am
To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com


Still working out the bugs on the new build.

I *think* I have too many USB devices.

System is an Asus Maximus VII Hero, i7-4770k, 16GB memory, not
overclocked, Ancient 6850 video card.  Antech 650 watt supply.

Now for USB I have:  Video camera, 2 external drives, printer, scanner,
mouse, keyboard, two midi keyboards and the problem indication:  Alva
Nanoface sound card.

When I had everything plugged in (printer, scanner & midi keyboards were

on an external hub), the sound would start out okay, then begin to
crackle, finally get so bad you couldn't stand it. Tried plugging
nanoface into just about every USB hole with the same result. The

nanoface expects USB 2.0. Tried powering the hub, but that didn't help.

If I unplugged one of the midi keyboards, things were okay for most of
the time.  Every once in a while (days apart), I'd get the crackling
again, in the same way.  Tried a different hub, no joy.

I checked with the IT department at work, they said they'd had this

happen once, too many USB devices, but don't know if it every got solved

(it was at another division).

So I'm looking for some ideas on how to make this bullet proof. Right
now the performance is acceptable, on the infrequent times when it's
crackling, I only need unplug the nanoface and replug it and I'm good
for a while.

Right now I have a PCI-E USB 3.0 card sitting here.  It takes power
directly from the system PS.  I was planning on isolating the nanoface
with this card.  If the problem is power, this has it's own power.  If
it's bandwidth, then this card doesn't share bandwidth with any other
USB port.

Ideals?

Thanks....Steve