Notebooks & Netbooks

[hancor2]

I have an Acer 5738z and I stupidly plugged a 12v supply from the back of a monitor into one of my laptop's usb ports. I now have zero working usb.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for what might have blown, fried or just died?

I am guessing it will be a shop fix job, but it might be something silly like an overload shut off. I have tried a factory restore but that failed.

Thanks

[HK53T]

USB ports would be mainboard

[hancor2 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for reply.... Have managed to sort my issue by other means.

I wanted to get back the abilty to connect a mouse to the laptop and with blown USB was facing an unbreakable wall, so me being me and having this strange love of fiddling I stripped a USB cable from it's male end (leaving the female intact) and using a plug similar to an internal bluetooth modem I took the tiny metal connectors our and carefully wrapped them in tape and slid them onto the pins for the socket I would have plugged a BT Module into, then removing a BT USB Dongle from it's case I wrapped it in tape to isolate it and plugged it in........ Success - I now have internal BT with a BT mouse and I'm happy again.

I did have to source a schematic for the mainboard so I could work out the correct wiring order but got lucky first guess, and I had to remove some plastic parts from the inside of the palm rest so it would all fit with the laptop intact.

[Vince53]

Hancor, you need to be writing FOR us, not TO us.