Star Tech pci420usb Card

[MiCK.ca]

I recently installed a startech PCI usb expansion card...All went well and all external devices connected show up without a hitch. However a day ago The card/devices just STOPPED.

I rebooted and no avail. Rebooted a second time got a IRQ 19 failure error. Then on a third try It showed up and worked fine... This has happened twice.

Here's my IRQ print after running cat /proc/interrupts


CPU0 CPU1
0: 132 3 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 0 146 IO-APIC-edge i8042
7: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge
8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
14: 58 6012 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd
15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_amd
17: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4
18: 593 6383 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb5, ICE1712
19: 3407 721 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2, ohci1394
20: 2 11714 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv
21: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_nv
22: 0 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3, nouveau
23: 22543 6474 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
26: 3577 109 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 409155 404086 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts
PND: 0 0 Performance pending work
RES: 63526 64439 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 86 174 Function call interrupts
TLB: 355 491 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 2 2 Machine check polls
ERR: 1
MIS: 0

after a lspci I get the following

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:08.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 70)
01:09.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
01:09.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 62)
01:09.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 65)
01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies Inc. ICE1712 [Envy24] PCI Multi-Channel

I am assuming that the second to the last entry is the pci usb card. Is there a way to home in more deriectly to find and troubleshot the problem and see if its module or IRQ?

thanks

[MiCK.ca]

Update:

I went into the bios and checked some things. One: my "Primary Video Adapter" was set for "PCI" and not onboard as it is...(that should have freed up a IRQ) Two: PS/2 mouse was set to auto. I changed this to disable as my mouse is in a USB port and the BIOS indicated that this freed up IRQ 12.

If there was a IRQ conflict then perhaps this may have fixed it...time will time till the next STOPPage.