Verph

okay, so here's the story..

this happened a few weeks ago with my dad's laptop (a dell). he logged in one day and it just came up with an error saying that there's a power surge on the USB hub port. so his little pen drive couldn't work anymore.

i never really encountered such a thing before. i worked on it for endless hours to no avail. i don't know what happened with it. i reinstalled everything and i got the same error. it only goes away when i disable the hub port totally (duh). i sent it to a few technicians around here and all they all said the same thing. actually one of them said nothing. he looked at me and game me this look saying "sorry dude, i'm too dumb to figure it out." others said it can't be fixed yada yada yada.

next thing i did was look up on the net. i didn't find anything that could help me or make anything clear.. then i remembered these forums (from the xtremevbtalk forums.. i used to be a daily regular member there.. now i'm a lot busy with school). i searched and got here.

basically if anyone knows anything about anything like this whatsoever please tell me. i just need something clear.

thanks.