From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 2042196 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:05:42 -0400 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:05:41 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] installing acpi w/ rc5 Message-ID: On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:56:56 -0700, Jon Harrison wrote: >> Do you have a USB Mouse and USB keyboard attached? > >Andy: > >It's just the mouse, no other devices plugged in. On the T61 I use the port >on the right side, top port. I haven't checked lately, but a few months ago >with rc4 I found that I had hang problems on bootup if I used the lower port >on the right whereas the upper port booted ok. I have not checked the other >2 usb ports now that I have achieved the level of stability I currently >have. I guess I need to check the different ports while booting and also >changing ports after it is running. > >Jon This may have nothing at all to do with it, but are you sure you have enough USB definitions in the Config.Sys? I don't think there is much downside to over defining. But, if you don't have enough lots of strange failures can appear. Because I also have a Docking Station that has an additional five ports, I added several more definitions than I would normally have. Just a FWIW... Something to check. Carl