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USB Ports- Power Surge?
Name: Kellaker Date: January 15, 2005 at 08:59:12 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 1 gig ddrm ram
Comment:
I have been using my computer for a year now..and everything has worked fine. We have two USB ports on the bottom front of our tower. Recently when i plugged in the ports i got an error message that there was A "power surge" and i had a choice to reset or close..
Are my USB ports broken? WHat can i do to fix them? How much is that gonna run me?
PLease and thanks in advance for looking at my post.
Name: kinel Date: January 15, 2005 at 09:05:23 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds a bit improbable to be honest.
You actually got a message when you plugged something into the USB port that said "Power Surge" ?
I've never seen or heard of such an error message.
What did you plug in ?
Please expand on your post.
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: January 15, 2005 at 09:07:27 Pacific
Reply:
If you have recently installed SP2, check this out.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 3
Name: CrazyBass Date: January 15, 2005 at 10:04:58 Pacific
Reply:
Does your comp have USB 1.1 and did you try to plug in a USB 2.0 device? With that you'll get something that sounds like "USB Power exceeded" or something like that.
Dell Dimension 4600i Windows XP Home v2002 SP2 Microsoft Office 2003 Pentium 4 @ 2.8GHz 512MB DDR RAM 40GB HD
...If my computer's not happy, I'm not happy.
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Response Number 4
Name: SteveMc Date: February 2, 2005 at 23:32:41 Pacific
Reply:
I have had the same problem with a CMS backup drive. Was working fine, then started to hang the machine when I plugged it in, sometimes gives me the message "a usb device has malfunctioned and exceeded the power limits of its hub port"
The work around (see above email) suggests an external power supply - tricky for a notebook backup drive that powers off an external keyboard socket that is not on my inspiron 8600.
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