Recent content by pbarnum2

I will try that next. In the meanwhile, all ports provide power. The left side port is actually mounted on the motherboard so I'll assume the worst case scenario for that one. The right side ports are on a separate board with a ribbon connector to the motherboard. Probably not telling anything...

That suggestion actually worked for the right side USB port but only the first one, not the second. I plugged in a thumb drive and it prompted me as to what to do with it. Tried the same thumb drive in the other ports and no bueno. I then tried a wifi dongle for a wireless mouse and got no...

Recently I had a 4-port USB adaptor plugged into the aforementioned USB port. While moving the laptop to another location, I dropped it and suffered only a crack in the shell on the top left corner while the 4-port adaptor took the impact for the lower half. Since then that port has stopped...