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So if anyone is sharing their issue please try and remember if there had been any special electrical disturbance lately. I.E. solar flares, local DARPA experimentation, paranormal activity, or other related particle physics anomalies. No but really, anyone else notice problems after some sort of electrical disturbance?

Originally Posted By: USBMalfuntionHell By the way, this isn't a USB cable problem or a vista problem or a device problem, it is a OS problem that I believe has to do with the low voltage (A Polyfuse (sometimes green in color, and located near where the port is), is a protection device used on the motherboard. If the Belkin tried to push +5V up into the motherboard, the difference in voltages, across the low resistance of the wiring, could result in a relatively large current flow. That could cause the Polyfuse on the motherboard to open. The Polyfuse will recover automatically, once it has had a chance to cool off. Which is why I'd suggest checking the hub, to see if it is emitting +5V on the upstream port.) as read on another thread, I think this guy is onto something...what do you all think? Check out the other stuff this guy said, I think he might be on to something. The reason I say this is because I'm running Vista 64bit and hadn't installed any new devices for a few weeks, hadn't altered any other device drivers in any way, nor had I downloaded any software updates from MS recently. The issue seemed to happen only after I got a new pair of headphones. These headphones (non USB) have a significant amount of exposed metal, and a couple of times that I've been sitting in my chair in a rather dry room with very cottony sweats on, I have moved around rubbing a blanket or removing it from my lap. This caused a rather painful static discharge IN MY EAR as the static arced from my body to the headphones. The headphone jack for my computer is right next to the USB jack so I wonder if there could have been some electrical discharge into that...?