New computer vs card reader/USB ***Solved***

I'm not too sure what forum I need to address this to. Not sure if it's an issue of bios, OS or hardware. It's very weird, wherever it belongs.
I just built a new computer (see specs below) and I have a HP Officejet 6300 with a front USB port combined with four different card reader ports. I don't use these ports and don't need them. When I installed this thing to my last computer a few months ago (an Aopen AX3S with PIII 933 MHx Coppermine) it wasn't a problem and didn't interfere with booting. After a few days, I uninstalled this pseudo drivecard reader because it interfered with my preferred drive assignment letters. I uninstalled it and it was gone. End of story.
Now I have the new computer that also has an AMI bios. I built it last Friday and reinstalled and updated all my software over the weekend, including the HP printer/scanner/fax software and drivers. I never connected the Officejet until I needed to print something yesterday. No problems there.
Since connecting this USB fed HP device, whenever I reboot this machine, it can take forever to get past the POST. First, it initializes the USB controllers, then displays the memory and locates my USB hub and a mass storage device. After that it proceeds though autodetecting my all my hard disks and optical drives. Then it starts autodetecting USB mass storage devices and begins hunting a "Device #0 :" It doesn't find it and tells me "0 mass storage devices found and configured" and something about NVRAM.
The time required for this is variable and may take either a fraction of a second or 28 seconds or 8½ minutes to reach this point in the POST. I never know what it will do until it happens. 8½ minutes is a long time to wait for signs of life.
In devicemgmt.msc this thing shows up both as as "Storage volume/Generic volume" and in my Disk drives category as "HP Officejet 6310 USB Device". In "My Computer" it shows up as Removable Disk H:, as "HP Officejet 6310 USB device".
 I've tried numerous times to uninstall this device but it comes right back like a bad weed. Sometimes it tells me "Windows has found new hardware", sometimes not. Regardless, it always comes back and I can't get rid of it, unlike with the old computer. Once I unintalled the thing in that computer, it was simply gone.
I can disable the device either in "Device Manager" or "My Computer" but then it always takes 8½ minutes to POST the first boot and 28 seconds thereafter.
When I disable the thing, it turns into a disabled "HP Officejet 6310 USB Device" in devmgmt.msc under Disk drives and disappears as a "Storage volume/Generic volume" and disappears in "My Computer".
If I unplug the USB cable from the Officejet or switch it off, everything is good.
I can't find anything in the BIOS that would explain this behavior but have tried resetting it anyway. I've pulled the plug and battery, discharged the capacitors by cycling the power button and cleared the CMOS numerous times. This hasn't helped.
Anybody know how to deal with this? It's really a pain in the butt.
Otherwise the new computer is great. Scary fast and stable as a rock.
(I don't really need to know HP makes junk. I'm aware of that. I bought one quite a few years ago with a replacement policy. It broke so they gave me another one. They keep breaking and I keep free replacements.)
MSI MS-7325 v1.0 (K9N4 SLI)
AMD X2 5000+ Black Edition
Cooler Master Hyper TX HSF
Corsair TWIN 2X2048-6400C4 G
AMI A7325NMS v.1.4 set to Optimized Defaults
Win XP Home SP2
WDC WD1600JB-00REA0 160GB (ATA-100, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache)
WDC WD400BB-00CAA0 40GB (ATA-100, 7200 rpm, 2MB Cache)
LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1633S (ATAPI66,2MB Cache)
Sony CDRW CRX230ED
Fujitsu 3.5" 1.44MB Floppy
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE (MSI NX7300LE 256 MB)
KDS 17" CRT monitor
MS Wireless kb and mouse
Logitech Attack3 USB joystick
Aux powered external USB hub
APC Back-UPS
80 mm Mastsu$hita rear case exhaust fan
300W Allied
testing 500W Apevia dual Smartfan PSU - 34 amp on 12v
testing 500W Antec Neo Power 500W 3x17A on 12v
HP Officejet 6310

Quote from: DonDodge on 13-February-08, 22:03:03
I think I fixed it last night. Not sure exactly how it happened but I did another cmos clear with a CF card in the HP, left it unplugged for quite some time and disabled quick booting. After that, POST quit looking for the HP. Now it is doing as it should and not finding or even looking for a printer as a potential boot drive when starting up. It does appear in Windows exactly as it's supposed to and occupying one of my drive but I'm going to leave it alone now.
Changing legacy support had no effect on anything. I tried that last night. It returned to its default of Auto with reset of the cmos. That's where it is now.
Quote from: DonDodge on 13-February-08, 23:43:41
Hi Svet,
I ran the HP USB disk tool on my Corsair flash drive and installed the MSIHQ BIOS tool on it with the v. 1.5 update. It worked like a champ. I had to jump through some hoops again to make the bios quit looking for the HP card reader at the POST but got it done. Everything is currently working just as it should.
With the new bios, I have the option  to change the multiplier. I'll probably wait a while before I start goofing with that but I just wanted to let you know that everything appears to be good with my new computer.
Thank you so much for all your help with this.
Best,
Don
Hi Don,
Nice  You are done well
Thanks for your feedback as well :smiley:

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