"none" <nospam@bogusaddress.com> wrote in message
news:FJH2i.8686$ya1.2888@news02.roc.ny
> a POWER SURGE ON USB HUB indicates to me either an over current or
> over voltage condition occurred. IF that is the case one must wonder
> it the mobo voltage converter which supplies USB voltage/current is
> intact. ___

Yes, but USB specs even allows the USB device to be even a dead short,
and it isn't supposed to do anything bad, but just shut down the supply
safely until the load is removed. Well that is the way it is supposed to
work anyway. :)

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Bill