[ltp] R40 blown USB controller

[Pablo Vera]

Hi everyone:

I have an R40 (2681-KLU) and today while connecting an MP3 player, it 
suddenly rebooted and I smelled something burning.  So I quickly turned 
it off and removed the battery.  After a while, I put the battery back 
in and turn it on.  At first it didn't start, but after some time I was 
able to boot again.

Everything seemed normal, all was working fine, until I got home.  At 
the office I use a port replicator to connect all my peripherials, but 
at home I simply plug in an USB mouse to work.

Well the mouse wasn't working, and after testing other USB devices 
(flash drive, palm pda) I concluded that something was wrong with the 
USB ports.  At first I thought that maybe I had blown a fuse or 
something and that the USB ports were powerless.  But after checking 
some more I discovered that power was fine (palm charged, optical mouse 
lights up, card reader powers up), but eventhough the laptop detects 
both EHCI and UHCI controllers, it does not detects when I plug anything in.

So, my final conclusion is that I more or less blew the USB controllers, 
but not their power source.

What do you think ?, is there anything I can do to fix my USB ports ?

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Thanks,
Pablo Vera