Hmm...if you want them saved on the Pod, I think you're going to have to Send them every time.  And/or you can Save them (from the File menu) on your computer for safe keeping.  If you had them saved on the Pod without hitting Send before...well...I can't answer that.

With the X3 and now the HD500, I am always sure to dedicate a back port exclusively to the Pod and run a long, high-quality USB cable.  No front ports, hubs, etc.  It may work on the other ports, but you reduce the chance of problems by giving it its own back port.

Hi-Speed.

Full Speed is 12 Mb/s whereas Hi-Speed is 480 Mb/s.

Santuzzo wrote:

 

Thanks, John.

 

I noticed that all my front USB ports are recognized as a USB hub indeed, so, like you said, I need to use one of the back ports for my HD500.

Yes that's often the nature of front panel USB connectors.  They would probably work OK for the majority of the time, but you are better to use a rear port for better reliability.

I saw you updated your system BIOS and that you now appear to have stability.  Did you look at the release notes for the BIOS you installed.  I'd be interested to know if increased memory stability was one of the included features - it often is - along with support for newer processors.  I suspect that the new BIOS may have slightly altered memory settings included in the underlying code.  No biggie - just curious that's all.

regards

Nick

Hi Lars

The 'improve system stability' remark in the BIOS update notes is probably somewhat more detailed in reality than the three words convey.  Just guessing, but that probably includes tweaks to the memory timings and maybe voltage settings too   We'll never know for sure, but it certainly looks like whatever they did fixed your problems, so if that holds true - we don't really need to care too much

The low speed USB thing is going to be almost certainly due to the speed of the hub in the front of your computer's case.  It is connected to a high speed USB 2.0 port on the motherboard, but is only capable itself of operating at the slower USB 1.1 speeds, so your motherboard's BIOS is correctly setting the USB speed to USB 2.0 but the hub in your case is limiting the USB speed, so when you plug in a USB 2.0 device to the front uSB connectors it can't communicate with the computer at its optimum speed and informs the computer's operating system of this so that's why you get the pop-up.

I tend to use reasonable quality Antec cases when I build myself a good PC and the hub in the case is USB 2.0 capable, but other makes might be different in this respect.

Regards

Nick

Certainly seems a bit weird if you didn't get the message before updating your BIOS.  I suppose it's possible if you look in your BIOS setup that the front USB connector may be separately configurable OR that the OS may have made an executive decision after the BIOS update. that the front header's speed is USB 1.1

However if you open Windows 7's Device Manager and expand the Universal Serial Bus Controllers section, right click each USB Universal Bus controller entry in turn and choose Properties - I'm currently on my Sony Vaio laptop withe W7 64 bit and my list shows these as: Intel(R) ICH9 Family Universal Serial Bus Controller - you get a box with tabs, which if you click the Advanced tab, there's a couple of check boxes which are labelled: Tell me if my device can perform faster, and; Don't tell me about USB errors. The first check box has a tick mark in it on my system or all the universal serial bus controllers.

Below the list of controllers, are a number of USB Root Hubs listed.  Right- click each one of those and choose Properties.  Click the Advanced tab and you should see USB information about the speed at which the hub is working according to Windows - mine are all operating at full speed, however there is a button marked Reset Hub which if the hub is working at a slower than optimum speed should reset it to the higher operating speed.  Once Windows has decided that something operates a particular way, it can sometimes store those settings to the registry so even if you switch the computer off it can 'remember'  the last setting even if it is incorrect.   This may or may not be true with regard to the USB Root Hub settings.

Your computer may use different USB Controller chipset(s) to my laptop and that probably being the case, the tabs you see and the content of each tab may differ from what I've described, but the essence of what I've said should be more or less the same.

Occasionally a system device as shown in Device Manager might get itself in a knot, and a cure can be to simply uninstall the device in Device Manager and to re-boot the computer, which will cause the device to be redetected and reinstalled with default settings that will work properly - you need to take reasonable care to ensure that your data is backed up because there is a very real if mostly slim chance that this technique might fail!  I don't think you need to take the risk though, but there's no harm in just taking a look at what's going on in Device Manager.

Nick

Lars - yes of course.  Sorry I was forgetting you're running XP.  I'm on W7, plus the physical USB chip-set on the Vaio is almost certainly different to your Asus motherboard, so the options that show up in device manager are almost certainly going to be a bit different.

Personally, if you have achieved stability and you are aware of the front USB port limitation, the most I would do is to tick the Don't tell me about USB errors option and to always use a rear USB port for the HD500 with a slightly longer USB cable, as you really don't want to run the risk of spoiling a good thing.

Nick