Last Saturday I went into my son’s room for some reason and my son mentioned that his iPod’s battery was almost dead despite having been connected to his computer for a long time. He thought our cat, Chewie, might have broken it. Chewie thought the iPod was a cat toy until we corrected him. I wasn’t convinced that the iPod was broken since everything else worked. I tried a few things on his computer and then connected the iPod to my computer. I charge my Blackberry and my Muvo without problems on my computer. In a few minutes the iPod showed a significant increase in the battery charge. After a little internet searching the Apple site said that some USB connections do not provide power. Since my son’s desktop computer has a much newer motherboard I was a little surprised. So I decided to see if I could get his USB connections to provide power.<\/p>\n
Boy was that a mistake! I checked the MSI website but I did not find any info. The Bios was not current and the website said that the latest release improved USB connectivity. So I decided to upgrade the Bios. I downloaded the Bios, started the upgrade, and the first thing it wants is a floppy drive. I did not install a floppy drive on his computer. They wanted the floppy drive to boot from. The Bios flash updater runs under DOS so I decided to provide a CD-ROM alternative. The first bootable CD-ROM ISO with FreeDOS did not boot. So I got a second one, FreeDOS Lite<\/a>. It is bilingual with a preference for German but it booted and I got my DOS prompt. Then I realized that I needed a FAT or FAT32 partition. So I went back created the partition and copied the Bios files over to it. I rebooted the machine back into FreeDOS again and the flashed the Bios without a problem.<\/p>\n When I got back into W2K it found some unknown hardware. That’s typically not good. I decided to upgrade the Nvidia drivers with WHQL drivers from Nivida. That’s when things went really bad! When I rebooted I got the blue screen of death. Another boot later it said I did not have a boot drive. I searched for info on the internet but finally gave up. I booted from the W2K installation CD-ROM and went into recovery console and ran chkdsk to fix any problems. That took a long time to run. Then I ran FIXMBR. It said I had a non-standard signature so I let it fix it. I rebooted and everything is fine including the Nvidia drivers. Whew, that was messy! I have had real good luck with Bios upgrades in the past so I am a little surprised. I think I don’t care if his iPod gets charged anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Saturday I went into my son’s room for some reason and my son mentioned that his iPod’s battery was almost dead despite having been connected to his computer for a long time. He thought our cat, Chewie, might have broken it. Chewie thought the iPod was a cat toy until we corrected him. I … Continue reading “iPod not charging and other tales”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sbs2k-sbs2k3"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iN3d-5x","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehuberconsultingllc.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}