It's stopped working, and I fear it may be terminal, as it is emmiting an ominous burning smell.

It detects the wireless dongle as an 'unknown device' and ignores pendrives.

Oh yea, and the lights for the dongle and the pendrives stay on constantly.

Sounds dead... burning really doesn't do parts well. What make hub was it? :/

That's the odd thing, it doesn't seem to have a company. It just says USB 2.0 4 ports hub.

The back of the box is mostly in what appears to be Japanese.

Sounds very generic. I would really expect it to be living now, TBH, especially if it smells like burning. Could try it in another computer, but don't hold out.

Where you doing anything odd with it?

I'm not.



I wasn't doing anything odd to it, but I was using it in my room if that's what you mean. :/

That was meant to be wouldn't :/

You didn't have it hooked up to extra power or anything like that? How much draw did you have on it at the time?

Nope, no extra power.

It just had the dongle and a pendrive plugged into it.

Hmm, that's odd. I'm afraid it was probably a bit dodgy or something has happened to it, somehow.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =CC-000-AK

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Is that a suggestion of a hub to buy, or a guess as to what type of hub I have?

I think he's suggesting you buy a new one, and that would be a good choice.

Yeah. Sorry, I was quite rude to just link it without saying anything.
I think your best bet is to buy a new one. For that sort of price... better to go in to Currys.digital and get it in-store than to pay for the delivery I guess.

Yeah, you'll be looking at around £10 for a new one, if you need one. PCWorld, Curries, Dixons etc will probably be your best bet. Or maybe eBuyer, as they don't have postage, IIRC. Though my memory isn't that good.