USB cooling pad causes USB-A port to die, requiring an eject and re-insert

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An update. I installed BIOS 3.09 excited by

@Kieran_Levin

Increase overcurrent protection debounce time to prevent some USB-A devices from triggering overcurrent faults when used with the type-A expansion card. Previous failure symptoms would include the USB-A expansion card losing power when a specific device was attached through the card, and would not regain power until the USB-A expansion card was removed and reinserted.

Unfortunately not a fix for this issue.

If we can figure out the cause maybe we can turn it into a feature, disabling USB A ports stopping them draining power when you don’t need them avoiding the need to remove them to get better runtime/standby duration.