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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
When USB was invented I thought what I stupid idea.
Who the fok powers devices via a communication cable ?! Only a NUTCASE would have thought of that ?! And my feeling has become a reality. THE USB PORTS ARE DESIGNED SO RETARDLY that it is actually possible to connect the USB PLUGS wrongly very easily !!! As a result of the power flowing through the USB cables this will FRY the motherboard in such a situation. NOW COMPARE THIS TO OLD SCHOOL STUFF: IDE CABLES.... AND PLUGS AND PORTS.... At least those would not cause pin mis alignment on better designed motherboards... the better ones have a plastic rectangle around it... so it will only fit properly... ALL MOTHERBOARDS I HAVE SEEN SO FAR includings those of ASUS and ASROCK have no rectangle around USB PORT ?!!!! FOK THEM. |
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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
The following went wrong:
USB port pins: .. ... ... ... ... plug was connected as follows: xx xx xx xx xx ... One row too high ! This happened because I did not want to take apart my entire PC... It was a bit dark, as usual in cases... ! Tried plugging it in from the side... Or maybe I even did it from the top with full light... Apperently somehow it happened ?! WEIRD ! Perhaps something else killed the motherboard, but this is a prime suspect. The question is now: Could it actually have killed it ?! Me think so, but somebody with detailed motherboard and pin layout will have to investigate further. I might also do so later on... I also suspect the "ground wire" got electrified... or perhaps eletricity tried to escape via it... the eletricity ended up into the soundblaster/receiver it was hearable... I wonder if a grounded-pc might have prevented damage... I don't know... PC is not grounded. Bye, Skybuck. |
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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
It sux pretty hard. This build was an experiment to see what would happen if
I would buy the latest and greatest as all those benchmarking and review sites promote more or less. I did have a lot of fun with Battlefield 2 and other games... but I am pretty much done with shooters... After playing those for 20 years I simply became too good at it... also having a super computer helps. I am pretty much completely done with this system/build. It kept dieing for many different reasons. The case is full with damaged harddisks because of cleaning the dust filters, which were ultimately removed. I kept the fans on medium speed. This still sucked in a lot of dust. I blew out the dust via breath and that worked after picking out big dust parts with pincet. If I do rebuild it then I will put the fans on low as a final and last experiment. If I do buy a new pc in the future it will be a closed PC as much as possible to keep dust out... very low airflow and as much as possible passively cooled and low noise. Even such a PC would not have prevented the stupid usb plug bull****... I just googled it and it seems I am most definetly not the only one who has now run into this issue it totally sux. Perhaps I will try and get warranty claiming that "USB port design is flawed/error prone" and that I deserve a replacement. Though I don't necessarily want to cause an argument with the webshop... however there are other reasons why I might not do that. For now the first thing I want to know if the delock device was flawed in it's design and may have caused unnecessary damage. So both devices could be blamed... both both at the same webshop. Fo now I just want to know what went wrong and why it killed my motherboard to try and prevent it in the future... a nasty learning experience. I want to buy a tablet really badly and dump the whole pc idea... unfortunately I cannot because of information stored on harddisks, and the low resources that tables have. Thx for the tip about USB 3.0 though... I hope it's fixed in USB 3.0... I will make damn sure that my next motherboard has USB 3.0 and a minimum of plugs that could be plugged wrongly. Also perhaps I will dump the AMD X2 3800+ processor just in case... 2 of the heatsink's screws broke off when I tried to unscrew it from my chair lazy when the pc was not in front of me but side ways/front towards me as usual. Apperently PC's are so fragile they require an operation room like churgery ! Anything else and damage is prone to occur That kinda sux. Bye, Skybuck. |
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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
No it's a bad idea and here is why:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=2602300 " My gf accidentally put a stereo jack into a USB 3.0 port in the dark, and it killed her computer. That is, the power supply is functional and it turns on, but the monitor and USB devices do not work.. so presumably it doesn't even get into the bios. Anyone have any experience with this? I *think* it's a short circuit.. but I've never short circuited a PC before, so I don't know where to even start. " Let's be gratefull that it wasn't 220 motherfokking volts ! Bye, Skybuck. |
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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
A nice document about the problems with USB, and possible
solutions/protections for eletronic designers (?): http://www.digikey.nl/Web%20Export/S...f?redirected=1 Mentions: Power surges, over-voltage, over-ampere stuff like that. Bye, Skybuck. |
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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
"Johann Klammer" wrote in message .telekom.at... Skybuck Flying wrote: I wonder if a grounded-pc might have prevented damage... I don't know... PC is not grounded. How can that be possible? Isn't there that 3 pin connector at the power supply. Yes, the wall socket doesn't have a ground pin as far as I know... Just 2 pins.... (Europe). Bye, Skybuck. |
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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
I was thinking the same thing...
Instead of getting a device I could also store my information on "the cloud"... However if internet goes offline well then you know what would happen... A network attached storage device is still not usefull for me without processing power... That's the main thing right now... getting more processing power... and then I can get my data back and so forth. Also not a lot of room for even more devices... where would I place a nat device... I'd be a bit worried if I kick it on accident... at least with everything inside the PC I know I have to be carefull... however the occasional bump against the table might also not be too great. However a kick from the feet is probably much harder than a bump against the table Bye, Skybuck. |
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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
I am not so sure about USB 3.0 anymore... it's ampere is even higher...
sounds fricking dangerous. Bye, Skybuck. |
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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
Moving to a single cable for data & power is definitely a great idea,
reducing cost and improving connectivity. Without this the USB pen drive would be extremely impractical, this is a device which has taken the world by storm, and for good reason. I go nowhere without mine incase my FTP server is offline and I need a piece of software. I agree with your other post regard better fool-proofing at the motherboard side. This is something they have addressed with USB 3.0, it can only be plugged in one way Pete On 21/11/2012 05:04, Skybuck Flying wrote: When USB was invented I thought what I stupid idea. Who the fok powers devices via a communication cable ?! Only a NUTCASE would have thought of that ?! And my feeling has become a reality. THE USB PORTS ARE DESIGNED SO RETARDLY that it is actually possible to connect the USB PLUGS wrongly very easily !!! As a result of the power flowing through the USB cables this will FRY the motherboard in such a situation. NOW COMPARE THIS TO OLD SCHOOL STUFF: IDE CABLES.... AND PLUGS AND PORTS.... At least those would not cause pin mis alignment on better designed motherboards... the better ones have a plastic rectangle around it... so it will only fit properly... ALL MOTHERBOARDS I HAVE SEEN SO FAR includings those of ASUS and ASROCK have no rectangle around USB PORT ?!!!! FOK THEM. |
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USB PORTS on the motherboard WORST INVENTION EVER.
On Nov 21, 12:04 am, "Skybuck Flying" wrote:
I keep a couple bottles of pink and green, ladies nail polish around these days. Always grabbing or poking something the wrong way, so I label anything repeatedly exasperating with color codes. Like my newest logitech mini-3Ghz (or something, works without direct line-of-sight off a USB Rcx, anyway) -- real tiny thing with such a horrible mouse touchpad I supplemented by digging out the old, regular IR mouse -- the critical keys are painted pink & green for sitting small on a coffee table without having a bunch of lights going for music or a video. Or USB sticks, just paint one side with a pink stripe for getting it right. If bored, of course, doing one's teeth in alternating pink and green is always interesting. |
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