I fried a USB port on my laptop with a static shock!
I grabbed the iPhone (it was charging via USB) and got a little shock and saw the nice little blue spark. I didn't think much of it, other than that it might not be good for the phone. (I once shocked a mouse so good that it stopped working until I rebooted). This morning I noticed my PC had spontaneously rebooted during the night, and ever since, that ports been dead. Coincidence? Luckily, it didn't fry the iPhone!
I did a little Googling, and it seems that some people have fried more than just ports via USB static shocks, killing their entire computers.
I guess I should ground myself before touching anything! Or stop walking around on the carpet in my socks! :-0
This just in - L thinks it was a plot by Apple and the iPhone actually tried to destroy my Windows PC.
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I'm constantly frying the mouse on my desktop at home with static. Luckily, a reboot always fixes it. I try to remember to touch the metal on my desk first when I sit down at the computer, but sometimes I forget and... kablooey!'
It gets worse. My computer has restarted itself a couple of times (really a BSD, but I didn't notice and it's set to auto-restart), and now I'm getting a pop-up alerting me to a failed USB device, and it's showing one port as "unknown device" instead of "unused port!"
Ugh. Last week I had problems with my work PC.
I don't have a new PC in the home electronics/IT budget! I've got AV toys to buy!!!!
There may be hope. After trying the usual things - rebooting, removing/reinstalling the USB drivers, I discovered that Vista accidentally did something right.
The pop-up that showed a problem with the port showed one as "unknown device" and the others as unused. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I could double-click that port and bring up the properties and could disable it right there.
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