Rally2 -- Oddness ...
Posted in xn--kfs74mzzid01b.com edit by admin on January 9th, 2009
I have just gotten a Rally2 and it is very odd.
I have 2 machines, 1 laptop and 1 desktop. Both have recently been wiped and have Vista 32bit installed on them.
When I put my 4GB Rally2 USB drive into the Laptop (a Dell D420), it finds it just fine and can set it as a Readyboost drive.
When I put it into my desktop, it initially saw it and asked if I wanted to make it a Readyboost drive. I said yes, but then it did nothing, and now when I try to get it to come back it will not allow for that option. I've tried the USB Flash Disk Formatter to no avail as well.
Now, for whatever reason, it won't get past the discovery phase on the desktop -- I put it in, I heard the Vista sound for removable drive attached, but it never shows and my Explorer will not respond if I try to look for it. The motherboard is brand new, but it's an Asus P5B Deluxe Wifi with the 1011 (latest BIOS as of last week).
Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.
I'm still on Vista64bit and Readyboost now works every time on my Rally2. I think that the reason turns out that any USB drive that is going to be used as a Flash Drive must the first or second device discovered, and then any others afterwards.
Reason being is my 400GB External HDD. Once I removed that (in 32 or 64bit) the Rally2 and SpeedBoost worked like a champ. If I plugged it back in, the Rally would lock everything up. That was when I had the External HDD plugged into the USB 1-4 on the back, directly connected to the MOBO, and the Rally2 plugged into USB 7-8 on the front (5-6 are extras on the back, but via a cable).
Anyway, once I moved the Rally2 into the place that the HDD was at, and moved the External HDD anywhere else it worked great - and is still working. WHen I tried once to plug both into the USB 1-4 on the back, it didn't work.
Anyway, hope this helps others if you're having woes. I couldn't find anything like this out there, although a few threads alluded to this issue just w/o the USB device order perhaps being the issue.
I've reloaded to 64bit Vista and STILL the woes. So I did the initial fix and turned off my USB 400GB drive and it works like a champ again.
I'm befuggled. I can't figure out why in the world that would cause this issue. I'm going to play around in the BIOS and see if it's some odd setting in there perhaps.
I give up. But at least I know it's not the Rally2 :)
It's 32bit and the 4gig limiting woes. I had my mobo setup to not use the upper (and thusly it was maxing out my 4gb register with memory (I have 4GB but only 3GB usable) and the rest was other hardware. Adding a Rally2 was fine (and it would detect it) UNTIL I made it ReadyBoost enabled; then it would need some of that 4GB registry I'm guessing.
Anywho, I just used the BIOS setting to put 2 of my 4GB into the PAE (above 4GB) area, limiting my RAM to 2GB and I guess freeing up some of the 4GB address space.... guess what? It immediately recognized my Rally2 and started using it ReadyBoost enabled. Argh.
Back to 64Bit for me. The only thing I lose is my printer but I'll spring for a newer one. :) Hopefully others will find this useful as it wasn't really any error that helped me find that, just guessing. Argh again for the hours of reload I'm about to undertake.
connected. I have a 400 Gig Samsung USB backup disk. If it is connected
first, Vista Ultimate will not recognize ANY subsequent insertion of USB
flash drives (tried several brands and sizes). If I disconnect the
Samsung, I can insert USB flash drives and they will be recognized.
If I boot with the 400GB USB drive and a flash connected, Vista displays
message that it is looking for a driver cannot find one. It then does not
recognize the flash stick. The Samsung works fine.
The upgrade to Vista was a clean install with partitions
dropped and a single new partition created. To me this points to Vista issue,
potentially linked to loading large USB memory device.
Has anyone else had any sort of issue like this before?
When I attach this drive to my Desktop machine, I get two errors:
EventIDs 10111 and then 10110. I'll attach screenshots of them here.
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