Could the mouse be damaging the cables?
Could the mouse be damaging the cables?
I’m starting to lose it here.
The cable with my wireless mouse had melted at the connection point. (Endorfy Lix)
The mouse showed odd behavior continuously, often triggering an error in Windows whenever I connected it to the PC for charging.
Something like "Device not recognized" kept appearing.
One day my keyboard stopped working and the PC restarted, displaying a blue screen warning about excessive current from a USB component.
I unplugged the keyboard thinking that was the problem, but after restarting it worked again.
Eventually I found out the melted USB cable had damaged the plastic near the connection point. The mouse functioned normally until I switched to different cables.
Later, with a better quality cable and a fast-charging brick, a faulty cable burned a section of a PS5 controller badly.
Months later, another PS5 controller suffered the same issue.
The main similarity among these incidents is that I likely charged the mouse using both cables, which eventually caused them to fail, and the controllers too.
Is it really possible for such things to happen? That sounds like something real could occur.
Link to imgur with pictures of the situation.
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Seems to me like your mouse was faulty on arrival. It's possible that the melting on the mouse's send was an indicator of either your motherboard supplying too much power or your mouse drawing too much power. Could also be a faulty cable or the connection wasn't secure or debris being within the connectors.
Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time.
Moved thread from Components section to Computer Peripherals section.