> Thanks Dave, I have a MCP79 nvidia USB controller: I too have: USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1) BUT I have never had boot trouble if I plugged in a 4-port hub. I think Dave means that you need to buy a USB to PCI or PCIe card. Avoid VIA if you can and try to get an NEC or Intel based card. > not change the system board. Need I some extra configuration on BIOS? Do you have the latest BIOS installed? Try that and reset to safe defaults. I think AMI Bios (if you have it) has hidden performance menus if you type in CTRL-F1 or SHIFT-F1 in the BIOS menu. My Afatech dual tuners are the Leadtek DS2000 (http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Leadtek_WinFast_DTV2000DS) which are on a PCI card. They have the same USB tuner parts you have plus a VIA USB->PCI bus chip. My next step is to once again try the PID filter and maybe disable USB sleeping/powerdown. Someone on another mailing list is having similar problems in Windows(!) and found the errors were minimal if PCI latency was set to 96. I am beginning to think Afatech is just crappy. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html