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Did I short out a computer?

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Yesterday I was in a dark room doing physics. We were looking at dynamic diffusion, and I needed to save a file to my thumb drive. So I went ahead and tried plugging it in to one of the USB Hubs. suddenly the computer turned off. After further inspection I found out that the hub didn't have a plastic thingy in the middle, and that I might have shorted the pins in my futile attempt to plug my drive in.

So is it possible to crash a computer by shorting out a USB port?

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My sister did this a long time ago and it just shorted out the USB ports, your pc should still work fine asside from the USB ports. Worst case is you should get a USB PCI-e card to connect your usb cables to if your usb ports don't work anymore

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I suppose anything is possible, though highly unlikely. 

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My sister did this a long time ago and it just shorted out the USB ports, your pc should still work fine asside from the USB ports. Worst case is you should get a USB PCI-e card to connect your usb cables to if your usb ports don't work anymore

Wasn't my computer, was the physics guys' one. ended up working fine afterwards.

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Wasn't my computer, was the physics guys' one. ended up working fine afterwards.

then you should be fine. Did the USB ports still work?

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I did this by sticking a key into a usb socket. It just shorted it out. I id the USB thing a fair few years ago though. I also accidentally got a molex pin to short onto one of the pci slot covers in my Define R4. The pc just turned off and all is fine now. 

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Yesterday I was in a dark room doing physics. We were looking at dynamic diffusion, and I needed to save a file to my thumb drive. So I went ahead and tried plugging it in to one of the USB Hubs. suddenly the computer turned off. After further inspection I found out that the hub didn't have a plastic thingy in the middle, and that I might have shorted the pins in my futile attempt to plug my drive in.

So is it possible to crash a computer by shorting out a USB port?

 

What a way to start a story. " I was in a dark room doing physics...". lol Who is this evil genius, mwaahaahaa!!!

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then you should be fine. Did the USB ports still work?

I don't know if the hub worked. I plugged my drive into a different port and that one worked. Hope the hub still works, and I wont have to pay a fee. lol.

 

 

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