USB ports dying: normal or not

[paulbaxter]

My desktop can with three USB ports on the front and a bunch in the back. One of the ones on the front gave up the ghost pretty quickly, then another has been a bit iffy. Yesterday the port on the back which had my keyboard just stopped functioning, leaving me with the keyboard plugged into the remaining port on the front and hoping nothing else goes wrong.

Is this a common thing? Is it cheap/easy to repair? I'm assuming some sort of wire or contact point has just worked loose.

[TheMix]

Hmmm... I don't think I've ever had a port go bad. Not sure what to tell you. You could check the cables on the inside that connect those ports to the motherboard to make sure that nothing came loose. At least for the front ones. For the back ones it will depend on whether they are part of the motherboard already.

[Anonymous Bosch]

I helped a friend replace the front I/O panel on a Dell desktop several years ago (his defective front I/O panel actually prevented the system from booting at all). The replacement I/O panel cost <$15 to order online, and installation was a breeze. I was able to look up the Dell part # in the relevant service manual for his system, and then just Googled that part number to find merchants selling it. I would imagine you can do much the same thing, regardless of the make and model of your system (or MoBo/case, if it was a system you built yourself).

[hitbyambulance]

check out this recent thread: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/thread ... lem.77514/