Re: Soyo 6-in-one USB memory card reader

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:39:19 -0400
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 11:40 am, Fred Gilham wrote:
> > Can you try disabling booting from USB mass stoarge devices in your
> > BIOS?  It sounds like the BIOS screws up bigtime if it sees such a
> > device connected.
> >
> > Also check for a BIOS update.
> >
> > What motherboard do you have?
>
> I can't see any USB mass storage settings in the BIOS.  I've got the
> latest BIOS --- albiet 2 years old.  The board is a FIC AN11.
>
> Just for the fun of it I copied down the BTX register dump, if that
> helps any:
>
>
> int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030206 eip=0000ffff
> eax=00009100 ebx=0000ffff ecx=0000ffff edx=00000007
> esi=0000ffff edi=0000ffff ebp=000003fc esp=ffffb608
> cs=f000 ds=0040 es=1000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9ebb
> cs:eip=b3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> ss:esp=00 00 00 00 00 00 41 d0-00 f6 06 02 fe 1a 00 d0

0xd is a page fault I think.  Looks like the BIOS jumped off a cliff: note cs 
0xf000, eip: 0xffff.  The stack has some zero garbage on it and then a 
possible return address of f600, but it's hard to tell if that's really the 
case.  Your BIOS definitely went out to lunch at some point.

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Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 12:35:30 UTC

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