Notebooks & Netbooks

[NZMike]

Hi

Just bought an Aspire ES1-511. Not my first Windows 8.1 laptop, but my first with UEIF firmware.

I've been trying to boot Driveimage from CD to do an offline backup, and guess what, it wouldnt recognise the CD as bootable. Fixed that by setting the boot type to "Legacy" in the BIOS and it boots fine.

My problem is that the mouse doesnt work after booting from the CD. Watching the behaviour of the mouse, it powers up when I press the power button, but powers off immediately the POST completes.

If booting Windows from the HD, power to USB is restored as soon as windows loads to the lock screen.

Anyone able to help with this, or experienced the same problem?

Thanks

[philetus]

Are you plugging mouse into a usb 3.0 port? Try a 2.0 port.

[NZMike]

Hi

Thanks for the  reply, Ive tried both USB 3 and USB 2 ports

it looks like something to do with the hardware not powering up the USB ports till windows loads