Honey I blew up the USB ports

[Robert F. Chapman]

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
> 

I haven't seen this issue before.  More info would help.

Motherboard: manufacturer/model/BIOS version
USB mem stick: manufacturer/model
Kernel version etc...


-- 
Robert F. Chapman
Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer
Test Systems Development - WWTS
Maxim Integrated Products (Sunnyvale, Ca)
P:408-530-6607