Power To USB mouse shuts off after POST

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.