Duude I tried blindly plugging in a USB-C at the back of my PC ones, I was like “Aha, gotcha” and then my PC just shut down. First came confusion, then I realized it wiggled left and right. That was incredibly scary, luckily ASRock has good protection circuits so nothing happened.
But I sure as hell haven’t blindly plugged in USB-C since then.
vodka@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Did this (on purpose) to HP laptops we were discarding at work (Elitebook G5) and you kill the entire USB-A part of the machine.
10/10 would HP again
fl42v@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Likely RIP PCH (or the CPU, if those 2 are combined). That’s kinda weird they don’t install protection on USB ports 'cause those are like 20 cents (at least judging by those in my t480). On the other hand, HP’s gonna HP
AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 months ago
HP = Horrible Product
michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
My cheap AM3 motherboard doesn’t cares about USB short circuts. So it’s HP’s deliberate miscalculation.
vox@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
same with my old lenovo laptop, i shorted both the power and data pins literally hundreds of times while tinkering with microcontrollers, and all it did is disable the ports until a reboot
vodka@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It is definitely HP just being HP.
Other non HP machines we have are just fine if you shirt the USB-A ports