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    Power Surge on Hub Port

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Christoffah, Nov 25, 2007.

  1. Christoffah

    Christoffah Notebook Enthusiast

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    So a few weeks ago, one of my notebook's USB stopped functioning, and popus up with "Power Surge on Hub Port" every few minutes. I noticed when i boot up my laptop, the USB mouse lights up immediately. To test whether it was Windows or my laptop itself, I plugged the mouse into the "dead" USB socket. It didn't light up.

    I began to think, "my USB port is blown, nothing I can do". One day I plugged a flash drive into the faulty port, it lit up, but then died out. Is this a sign of hope? Does it show there is some life in the port, or was it a quick spark?

    Anyone any ideas - I've gathered the solution is basically to take the computer into repair, but I don't want to spend £100 to get my USB port working again... it's also just gone out of warrenty, agh.

    Many thanks guys.
     
    Christoffah, Nov 25, 2007
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    Christoffah Notebook Enthusiast

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    Futher evidence... I just plugged in my printer's USB cable into the faulty port - it made the 'USB input sound'... a few seconds passed, the "Power Surge on Hub Port" balloon came up, then I heard the sound of 'unplugging a USB device'....

    what do you make of this? I'm pretty confused.
     
    Christoffah, Nov 25, 2007
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    bump.. just on the off-chance someone has any ideas...
     
    Christoffah, Dec 24, 2007
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    after about 5 mins googling it seems that this is a Windows problem, and not an actual problem with the hardware, either that, or your USB device is trying to draw too much power (which a USB stick or printer wont do!) if you get it detected for a second then it goes out, your USB port is NOT fried!!

    What version of Windows are you running? From what I've read, this problem mainly happens with XP SP2!
     
    H3rmaN, Dec 24, 2007
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