USB Port shorted out

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I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and recently started having problems with the USB ports. Shortly after I got my computer, my touchpads stopped working, so I purchased a mouse and plugged it into one of the ports. The other day I tried plugging my digital camera into the other port and up pops a message saying that the port has shorted out. I've never had problems with this before. What could have caused this, and how can I fix it? Its really really annoying because now I have to unplug my mouse and use that port, and its extremely hard to do anything on my computer without a mouse. Can anyone help, or could someone tell me how to make my touchpads work again?

 

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Call Dell. If it is, as it says it is, there is nothing YOU can do to fix
it.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

"jati0201" <jati0201@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8F09E93F-80D2-4969-93C2-0C218C31E838@microsoft.com...
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and recently started having problems
with the USB ports. Shortly after I got my computer, my touchpads stopped
working, so I purchased a mouse and plugged it into one of the ports. The
other day I tried plugging my digital camera into the other port and up pops
a message saying that the port has shorted out. I've never had problems
with this before. What could have caused this, and how can I fix it? Its
really really annoying because now I have to unplug my mouse and use that
port, and its extremely hard to do anything on my computer without a mouse.
Can anyone help, or could someone tell me how to make my touchpads work
again?

 

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"jati0201" <jati0201@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8F09E93F-80D2-4969-93C2-0C218C31E838@microsoft.com...
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and recently started having problems
with the USB ports. Shortly after I got my computer, my touchpads stopped
working, so I purchased a mouse and plugged it into one of the ports. The
other day I tried plugging my digital camera into the other port and up pops
a message saying that the port has shorted out. I've never had problems
with this before. What could have caused this, and how can I fix it? Its
really really annoying because now I have to unplug my mouse and use that
port, and its extremely hard to do anything on my computer without a mouse.
Can anyone help, or could someone tell me how to make my touchpads work
again?

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I recommend you lodge a service call with Dell.