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| micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>: Mar 11 10:13PM -0500 I have an Acer E15 E5 laptop two usb3 ports and one usb2, and when I plug a flashdrive into one of the USB3 (but not the other ports) it lights up even when the computer is off, and when it's not plugged in. What's with that? I've never seen this mentioned in a spec. Is it about waking up the laptop? (Will this be true on my desktop too?) I've heard of wake-up on LAN and iirc wake-up on phone (???), but not wake-up on USB. |
| Ralph Phillips <ralphp@philent.biz>: Mar 11 09:24PM -0600 On 3/11/2021 9:13 PM, micky wrote: > I've never seen this mentioned in a spec. Is it about waking up the > laptop? (Will this be true on my desktop too?) I've heard of wake-up on > LAN and iirc wake-up on phone (???), but not wake-up on USB. That's a port designed to charge cell phones etc. even when the laptop is off or unplugged from AC. RwP |
| micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>: Mar 12 12:28AM -0500 In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:24:53 -0600, Ralph Phillips >> LAN and iirc wake-up on phone (???), but not wake-up on USB. >That's a port designed to charge cell phones etc. even when the laptop >is off or unplugged from AC. What a good idea. But I never heard about it before. :-) |
| "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>: Mar 12 04:43PM +1100 micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote > and when I plug a flashdrive into one of the USB3 (but not > the other ports) it lights up even when the computer is off, > and when it's not plugged in. What's with that? Its done like that so you can have wake on keyboard or mouse. > I've never seen this mentioned in a spec. Its common with the best desktop motherboard manuals. > Is it about waking up the laptop? Yep, when you have a keyboard or mouse plugged into that port. > (Will this be true on my desktop too?) Yep. > I've heard of wake-up on LAN and iirc wake-up > on phone (???), but not wake-up on USB. Its normally called wake on mouse or keyboard. Obviously with usb keyboards and mice. |
| micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>: Mar 12 01:32AM -0500 In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:43:48 +1100, "Rod Speed" >> the other ports) it lights up even when the computer is off, >> and when it's not plugged in. What's with that? >Its done like that so you can have wake on keyboard or mouse. That could be good. >> on phone (???), but not wake-up on USB. >Its normally called wake on mouse or keyboard. >Obviously with usb keyboards and mice. That would have attracted my attention even more, using words I know like mouse and keyboard. (I still have trouble with high tech like USB, so I skim over them. ) But this is good. I always use and external mouse and keyboard, so I'll plug one of them into that jack. Haha, the only reason I plugged it in was because I was trying to see if I could plug in two things side by side. Flashdrives are narrow but this laptop has no 3.5mm jacks, so I need** a USB to 3.5 adapter and they have an amazing amount of circuity in them which makes them either 0.79 or 0.81 inches, except for the first one below which puts the electronics at the 3.5mm end, not the USB end. narrow one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XP5R449/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=AKXVBT49GGF3B&psc=1 wider one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0885WGX89/ref=ox_sc_act_title_7?smid=A20J3ITGSOMSJG&psc=1 This one and another one push the fact that they are narrower than some others, but they're still wider than one above that puts the electronics at the other end! **Wait!! I fixed the desktop so I don't need the laptop while I'm home. I'll talk about that in another thread. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XP5R449/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=AKXVBT49GGF3B&psc=1 |
| micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>: Mar 12 04:54AM -0500 In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:13:09 -0500, micky >I've never seen this mentioned in a spec. Is it about waking up the >laptop? (Will this be true on my desktop too?) I've heard of wake-up on >LAN and iirc wake-up on phone (???), but not wake-up on USB. It does say it in the owner's manual. I read it but didn't understand what it meant: "USB port with power-off charging" On page 57 it says "Some USB 3.0 ports support charging devices when the computer is in Hibernate or turned off.", but I hadn't read that. And there's a headset/speaker jack too. I forgot I'd read that and the little hole is hardly noticeable. |
| "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>: Mar 13 01:06AM +1100 "micky" <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote in message news:pn1m4g1han0jrfs9laojcm5e1a7e1vm0ej@4ax.com... > This one and another one push the fact that they are narrower than > some others, but they're still wider than one above that puts the > electronics at the other end! That problem is trivially fixed by using a tiny usb extension cord or a usb hub. |
| Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid>: Mar 12 04:14PM +0100 On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 01:06:13 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again: <FLUSH the trolling senile asshole's latest trollshit unread> 01:06??? And you are up and trolling ALREADY, yet AGAIN? Or are you STILL up? Always hard to tell with you obnoxious sleepless trolling senile asshole! -- MrTurnip@down.the.farm about senile Rot Speed: "This is like having a conversation with someone with brain damage." MID: <ps10v9$uo2$1@gioia.aioe.org> |
| Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com>: Mar 11 05:21PM -0800 Phil Allison wrote: -------------------------- > I even got some 400V pigtail electros once that were in fact used, removed from old CFLs, repacked and relabeled. See page on fake passives:. https://www.electronicproducts.com/how-to-spot-counterfeit-passive-components/# Nothing is sacred... ..... Phil |
| "Peter W." <peterwieck33@gmail.com>: Mar 12 03:42AM -0800 https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bf/08/2b/bf082be155eda69a83e15928ac36e864.jpg |
| micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com>: Mar 12 02:46AM -0500 After a lot of help from Paul in one of the newsgroups on the list, I fixed my win10 computer. I had been getting Inaccessible boot device and also as a result, 0x000000c, or something like that. If you google Inaccessible boot device. youll see the exact error mentioned. It took 30 elapsed hours and 6 to 8 hours of work. I almost wish it had dragged on longer so I could have learned more, by fully understanding Paul's posts, and reading on the web. I don't even know what fixed it, but I think there were only two possible things I did. I ran: bcdedit /store C:\boot\BCD /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu True Paul susggested this. Paul, after I ran this line, it just said "Operation concluded succefully" but it didn't say what it did!! Any chance this fixed it, or was it just supposed to display the boot menu? Lazesoft was just as confusing. I used one particular thing** in: Lazesoft Windows Recovery which is contained in Hiren's Boot CD. I installed it on a flashdrive which is much better that a CD, because you can copy or dl software to it, and run the software from flashdrive, like Forte Agent. You can make a file for notes, save it on the flash drive and then use the flashdrive on your laptop or the broken PC after you fix it. Hiren's includes Firefox, but afaik it doesn't save bookmarks or prior sessions. It forgets everything it knows when you close Hirens. Because it was first written for a CD and I don't think they made changes when people started putting it on flashdrives. So in a notes file, I kept a list of urls that might help me fix the problem, to read on the laptop after I closed Hirens. Back to Lazesoft Windows Recovery, the home edition is free. It's organized pretty well. There are lots of things included that I didn't try because I only did things related to "can't boot". I tried Repair MBR, then rebooted with no success. Then I tried Fix Boot Sector, then rebooted with no success. Then I tried Rebuild boot Menu and rebooted with no success. The next step, something like Replace Windows system files, it said was not available in the Home edition (at least for win10), and I was considering buying a better edition, but I was also following Paul's suggestions and leads. Then I tried Chkdsk and it ran too quickly for me to take it seriously, under 45 seconds, but it didn't find any problems. Many/most of the operations have Undo ability. Plus it seems you can't run twice the ones with Undo-ability, because the 2nd time the button won't even depress, even if it's not the same Hirens session (because of the presence of the .bak files I'm sure.) ** Finally after hours of reading and trying other things, mostly related to Paul's posts, I tried One Step Repair. It said that was for novice users and of course I'm no dang novice, plus I figured it wouldn't tell me where the prolem was and I wanted to know. So I'd saved it for last. But I tried it and this is what it said. I copied it to my Notes.txt: System Volume: System Reserved,(*:).1.00 GB NTFS Check and Fix the MBR Check and Fix the boot indicator Check and Fix the boot sector parameters Check and Fix the boot sector boot codes Check and Fix the BCD file Check and Fix the file system for the boot partition Check and Fix the missing critical Windows system files Check and Fix the registry files -- end quote -- Note that afaik I hadn't done the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th tests, because it didn't list them separately. The 7th line about windows systems files, it specifically said was not in the home edition. Was that incorrect or is the 7th line there by mistake? Who knows. (I looked at the list of files in the System Reserved partition, but I didn't look for a complete list to compare it with.) And it doesn't say what it fixed, if anything. Hirens is great. I can't speak too highly about Hirens. Even if it's not the most recent version of Lazesoft (no version number is given), it's much better than just putting Lazesoft Windows Recovery on a flashdrive because Hirens has loads of other freeware and shareware, for just any purpose, like administrative-level CMD, partition managers, ImgBurn, Firefox, notepad, wordpad, MyComputer (file manager). See this list: https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/ https://www.hirensbootcd.org/ I hadn't even noticed thise tools that might have helped: BCD-MBR Tools BootIce v1.3.3 EasyBCD v2.3 I think Knoppix is supposed to be similar but I didn't understand it. I know Hirens works. They're up to version 15.2 now, but old versions are good too if they have Lazesoft. |
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