{"id":537,"date":"2007-12-20T19:44:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T00:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/12\/20\/usb-ports-gone\/"},"modified":"2007-12-20T19:44:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T00:44:47","slug":"usb-ports-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/12\/20\/usb-ports-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"USB Ports… Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if this is another Vista problem or if it is a problem\u00a0with the iPod Touch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week my mouse stopped working.\u00a0 I noticed it right after I plugged in the iPod, but didn’t know if it was related.\u00a0 I wasn’t using the computer before plugging in the iPod, so I didn’t know if the mouse was already out of commission.\u00a0 I grabbed another mouse, but it wouldn’t do anything either.\u00a0 A little checking revealed that nothing connected to a USB port was working.<\/p>\n

I did a reboot and that did not help.\u00a0 I thought I may have blown out my USB ports which are integrated on\u00a0my motherboard.\u00a0 I always keep a spare USB and 1394 card in my “just in case” box.\u00a0 I popped in the USB card and switched everything (mouse, head phones, hard drive) over to the new card.\u00a0 Everything worked fine.<\/p>\n

Out of habit, I plugged the iPod into\u00a0a front USB port… and it worked.\u00a0 I know those two front jacks are connected to the same place on the motherboard as the USB ports on the back of the computer.\u00a0 I had tested the front and back jacks before adding the extra USB card.\u00a0 None of them had worked.<\/p>\n

I plugged everything back into the original USB ports leaving the add-on card empty.\u00a0 Now all the built-in ports worked.<\/p>\n

About a week later, it happened again, and I did note that it was triggered by plugging in the iPod.\u00a0 A reboot didn’t fix it.\u00a0 I did a full shutdown and then pulled the power plug (sometimes that will reset the power).\u00a0 That did it.\u00a0 Everything came back to life.<\/p>\n

Tonight it happened again.\u00a0 I plugged in the iPod and all the USB ports went dead…\u00a0no power, no nothing.\u00a0 I did a shutdown and pulled the power plug.\u00a0 Everything came back to life on the first reboot.<\/p>\n

Has anyone else seen this happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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