USB Surge When Camera Is Plugged Into PC

Odeh A

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Oct 7, 2016
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Every time I plug ANY DSLR with ANY battery (whether the camera is on or off) I get an error message on my PC saying "A USB device has malfunctioned and exceeded the power limits of its hub port." or something about exceeding power limits and power surge and so on. I've unplugged the front USB port connector, and before I did that I couldn't even enter my PC because I got an error message saying that there was a USB power surge and the system would shut down in 15 seconds, even when my camera wasn't plugged in. I've tried using a different camera, USB cable, USB ports, USB hubs, and different battery (yes, an actual stock Canon battery). By the way, this starting happening out of nowhere. Everything was working fine for the first week I had the camera and was plugging it in, but then this just starting happening. I’m using Windows 10. If anyone can help me out, it'd be greatly appreciate.
Thanks
 
Solution
A powered USB hub MIGHT help

The camera maybe / or must be drawing too much power from the port

Looks like deleting the USB controller entries in device manager, then rebooting MAY fix this prob

It may also depend on how you connect a USB cable. If you connect the USB cable to the camera first, then plug it in , does that message come up?

If you connect the cable to the port then to the camera / device that message may appear




Windows 10.
I’ll go ahead and edit that into the original post
 
A powered USB hub MIGHT help

The camera maybe / or must be drawing too much power from the port

Looks like deleting the USB controller entries in device manager, then rebooting MAY fix this prob

It may also depend on how you connect a USB cable. If you connect the USB cable to the camera first, then plug it in , does that message come up?

If you connect the cable to the port then to the camera / device that message may appear


 
Solution


So it turns out that when I did unplug the front USB cable, I guess I never tried to plug in my camera. I was very tired last night lol.
However, I'm going to select your response as Best Answer because when all this was happening, deleting the driver fixed it for about ten minutes. Everything is working now, I guess something was wrong with my front USB cable.
Thank you everyone.