power surge on usb port error message with xp home

[sdaniel1256]

Hello,

I recently replaced my daughters power supply. Before I replaced the
power supply everthing was working fine (except for the noise of the
fan bearings starting to go!!!). I have replaced many power supplies
previously with no issues.

Now that she has a new power supply (identical wattage to what used to
be there) she is getting the power surge on usb port error message
coming up (balloon message to be exact). When she gets this error her
printer no longer works (usb printer). She also was using a usb
keyboard but I removed that and put in a regular wired ps2 connector
keyboard but she still gets the error. This is very annoying and it
prevents her from being able to use her printer. Any ideas of what
might be going on here? Nothing else has changed.

I'm guessing maybe it was a faulty power supply but what are the
chances of that happening?

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated....

Thanks,
Scott

 

[w_tom]

It would have been simpler to replace the fan.

Meanwhile, clone power supplies typically need to be 30% larger
wattage to be equivalent to the wattage typically standard in non-clone
computers. Furthermore, power supplies selling on price and watts
typically are missing functions deemed essential even in power supplies
30 years ago. IOW what that possibility is becomes irrelevant.

Meanwhile, be more concerned with solving a problem without
speculation. Two minutes with a 3.5 digit multimeter answers your
questions AND provides numbers so that others can post a useful reply.

Get a meter to learn what is wrong, immediately, and before replacing
anything. Solve a problem the first time. Procedures to take such
measurements were detailed previously in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general on 7 Jun 2006 entitled "Dead
computer" at
http://tinyurl.com/qcvuq

Will this solve a USB port problem? No way to tell. However all
types of strange electrical, plumbing, and hardware problems occur when
a house's foundation fails. Power supply is the foundation of a
computer. Check a foundation before moving on to other suspects.