From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/12/2 7:51:58, Paul wrote:   
      
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   > And in totally unrelated news, I got another hint yesterday,   
   > about what the problem is on my daily driver.   
   >   
   > I was typing away, I brought some window to the front.   
   > The window stopped responding. I looked down, and my mouse   
   > LED was off, and the shift key didn't work on the keyboard.   
   > The bloody machine had turned off the +5VSB to peripherals   
   > again.   
   >   
   > Now, normally when that happens, I'd be pressing Reset   
   > and rebooting it. And the log would note a dirty shutdown   
   > and no error recorded.   
      
   Could you instead plug in a keyboard and mouse plugged into an   
   externally-powered hub (possibly the same KB+M), rather than doing a reset?   
      
   >   
   > Well, this time, something different happened. A watchdog   
   > timer went off. It seemed to be the NVidia driver that   
   > was involved (daily driver uses a GTX1050 to drive the screen,   
   > a low end video card). The driver actually recovered. And,   
   > it seemed to send a report to Microsoft (there was network   
   > activity).   
      
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   So that caused the +5VSB to be turned on again?   
      
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