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curaga:
Fried usb ports are the most common hardware fault for warranty repairs.
thane:
I wonder if it's worth bagging the warranty and getting it fixed locally if possible. $50 - 60 shipping each way between here (Hawaii) and Nevada, besides the hassle. So what's involved? I was sort of hoping it might be a miswire or jumper setting problem. But if parts are fried....
edit: don't know if it's relevant, but the usb stick was initialized by a usb 1.0 box and the new box is usb 2.0. Stick was fairly new though (~ 1 year).
curaga:
Usually if a port burns, it only takes itself, or in worse cases the same hub. Other ports/hubs should still work (ports at the back if this was at front, for example).
Luckily there isn't a jumper for overvolting usb; the cable could have been plugged in a wrong spot/way though (if these were the front ports).
thane:
The front usb ports don't seem to work at all -- the rear ones fry my sticks. I got the manual and I know a couple people who've assembled boxes from scratch so I'll see what I can do. This is starting to look like one of those painful lesson things though...
thane:
Looks like no way to fix (rear usb ports are connected directly to motherboard).
Time to send it back.
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