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Reset of USB port after probable power surge
Desktop Pc : Dell XPS 8300
Operating System: Win 7 Professional
Total 6 port, 2 External Port on the top of CPU, probably 4 on the back.
Problem: Usally my seagate external hard drive is attached to the top second port always. On a nice morning, 2 day back I got a message from the system tray (after system comes off from night sleep) that " USB mass storagedevice has exceeded the power limits of its hub port". After I close the window (in a hurry), I could not able to activate that port, but power is coming to the ext. device if attached but not recognised by the system. The port next to it, is working fine.
My dell phone support system could not solve the problem, now his engineer will make a visit, don't know what he will do.
Clue: One interesting thing i have found under universal serial bus controller, that one drive named "USB Mass storage device " always remains at present, however, if I attach the external device to left USB port, another "USB Mass storage device " drive is created and is removed when I detach it. But this is not the case for the faulty one.
Request: How can I reset my faulty port to come back active. please help,
Best Regards
Raj