Hi,
Short version
I bought a 5 slot USB 3.0 card on Amazon. It appears to have been faulty and the result is that everything I plugged into it has now stopped working, even on other computers.
The question I have is ... are all these expensive items ( oculus / camera / mic / razer rgb matt ) all dead forever? Or did the USB just do something to them that is fixable?
Longer version
As noted above, I bought a 5 slot USB 3.0 card on Amazon from what I thought was a good company. I installed the card and turned on my computer, only to smell burning electrical. I immediately turned off my computer, checked all the connections, and turned it on again to see if the smell came back ... it did not.
Here is what I bought:
https://www.amazon.ca/Inateck-KT5001-5-Port-Express-Connector/dp/B00FPIMJEW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
After installing the new card, it worked for a week. No electrical smell and no problems. Then, my Oculus Rift stopped working yesterday and I started trouble shooting. I tried testing the ports which is how my other items got plugged into it, and initially it just looked like dead ports.
This morning, I tried something different which is when I discovered that the card was killing my peripherals. I plugged a USB Drive into my second computer that works fine ... the USB was recognized ... then I plugged the USB into a working mobo USB port on my problem computer and it was recognized ... then I plugged the USB into a port on the broken card and it did 'not' recognize ... and most importantly, when I then tried to plug the USB drive back into a port on my second working computer, it no longer recognized it. And any item that I plugged into that bad card no longer works on other computers.
After this happened, I went back and looked at the few bad reviews on Amazon, and I found a single review with the exact same problem:
https://www.amazon.ca/Inateck-KT5001-5-Port-Express-Connector/product-reviews/B00FPIMJEW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_hist_1?showViewpoints=1&filterByStar=one_star&pageNumber=1
Main Question
I know I need to replace the defective card. But are all those items I plugged into the bad card dead? Did it fry them with too much power or something? And most importantly ... is there any way to reboot them or reinitialize them or get them working again?
I've never seen anything like this before.
Ty in advance.
Phil
Short version
I bought a 5 slot USB 3.0 card on Amazon. It appears to have been faulty and the result is that everything I plugged into it has now stopped working, even on other computers.
The question I have is ... are all these expensive items ( oculus / camera / mic / razer rgb matt ) all dead forever? Or did the USB just do something to them that is fixable?
Longer version
As noted above, I bought a 5 slot USB 3.0 card on Amazon from what I thought was a good company. I installed the card and turned on my computer, only to smell burning electrical. I immediately turned off my computer, checked all the connections, and turned it on again to see if the smell came back ... it did not.
Here is what I bought:
https://www.amazon.ca/Inateck-KT5001-5-Port-Express-Connector/dp/B00FPIMJEW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
After installing the new card, it worked for a week. No electrical smell and no problems. Then, my Oculus Rift stopped working yesterday and I started trouble shooting. I tried testing the ports which is how my other items got plugged into it, and initially it just looked like dead ports.
This morning, I tried something different which is when I discovered that the card was killing my peripherals. I plugged a USB Drive into my second computer that works fine ... the USB was recognized ... then I plugged the USB into a working mobo USB port on my problem computer and it was recognized ... then I plugged the USB into a port on the broken card and it did 'not' recognize ... and most importantly, when I then tried to plug the USB drive back into a port on my second working computer, it no longer recognized it. And any item that I plugged into that bad card no longer works on other computers.
After this happened, I went back and looked at the few bad reviews on Amazon, and I found a single review with the exact same problem:
https://www.amazon.ca/Inateck-KT5001-5-Port-Express-Connector/product-reviews/B00FPIMJEW/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_hist_1?showViewpoints=1&filterByStar=one_star&pageNumber=1
Main Question
I know I need to replace the defective card. But are all those items I plugged into the bad card dead? Did it fry them with too much power or something? And most importantly ... is there any way to reboot them or reinitialize them or get them working again?
I've never seen anything like this before.
Ty in advance.
Phil
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