Power surge on hub port

Ger_ryan22 · 03-10-2007, 09:35 AM

Hello People!

For a number of months now I've been getting this failure:-

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Power surge on hub port

a USB device has exceeded the power limits of its hub port.
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Background first, a couple of years ago, for whatever reason, my onboard USB Ports [x2] just stopped working. The kind people on this Forum tried and tried to help but it just wasn't to be. I therefore purchased a 5 port PCI USB Card [not externally powered] and placed it in one of the available slots inside my PC. For a few weeks it worked fine but now only 1 port seems to work properly. I can ONLY have 1 device connected to the hub at any given time, if I put my printer or MP3 player in while my broadband Modem is connected I get the above fail straightaway. If I was to leave my Internet connected for a number of hours I will eventually get the above fail, the Modem lights would go off and I'd have to turn the PC off fully each time which is so annoying and frustrating! I have read about the self-powering hubs and was just wondering - is this what I need or is my Motherboard simply not good enough for the job? It's a Jetway Socket 360 MoBo I bought in 2001.

Any help on this matter would be great, I don't really want to purchase a powered Hub to find out my PC can't handle it.

Thanks a lot
Gerard

dai · 03-10-2007, 09:51 AM

i prefer using a powered hub to a card,they are cheaper to buy here as the supermakets even stock them which forces the price down to around half that of a card from a computer supplier

Ger_ryan22 · 03-10-2007, 09:53 AM

Thanks mate, I'll have a look on Ebay for one, seem to be going there for a couple of quid!

Cheers!

03-10-2007, 09:51 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 44,112 OS: vista 32x ultimate retail	i prefer using a powered hub to a card,they are cheaper to buy here as the supermakets even stock them which forces the price down to around half that of a card from a computer supplier __________________

03-10-2007, 09:53 AM	#3 (permalink)
Ger_ryan22 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Dublin - Residing In Manchester UK Posts: 138 OS: Windows XP SP2	Thanks mate, I'll have a look on Ebay for one, seem to be going there for a couple of quid! Cheers!