Honey I blew up the USB ports
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Thu Dec 21 05:09:54 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 16:40 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
> I plugged my USB memory stick in the other night, and instantly froze my
> FC5 system. I mean bang--dead.
>
> The reboot went fine, journals all recovered fine (Nice!), but the
> system no longer responds to any device plugged in. No kernel messages
> at all. The stick still works in other computers, and the ports still
> don't work if I reboot into that other OS, so it sure looks like my USB
> ports are gone.
>
> All the kernel messages on bootup look ok, same as usual, no errors.
>
> Anyone else have this happen?
>
> Anything else I might try?
>
> Anything I should look for when buying an add-on card?
>
> <Joe
>
If the ports are on a bus board, check that it is seated well. I have
had boards that would lift when plugging thing in and out, making them
fail to work. If that is good, check that the supply hasn't died. The
+5 is used for USB output. Some boards also have a fuse on the board.
It may have blown.
Regards,
Les H
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