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[Solved] My DWA-125 gets blazing hot and stops working

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mStuff:
A year ago, I bought a DWA-125, at first I used it every day for 2 months, then I got a new PC and used a wired connection to my router - Now, 8 months later I need to use it again, but after having it connected for maybe 4-5 minutes it gets extremely hot, so hot that my fingers get burnt touching the usb-male-connection. Apart from getting hot, it works less and less effectively and finally stops working altogether until it gets cooled down.
Anyone else have experienced this?
The device was stored in a metal box made for storing electrical devices the 8 months it was not used.

Cheers

FurryNutz:
Does it work in the old PC?

What USB ports on the new pc are they? USB 3.0 or 2.0?

Using the latest drivers from the main web site?
What OS Platform are you using on this new PC?

mStuff:
It was connected to a USB 2.0 port, all drivers updated, win8 x64, but it doesn't matter anymore.
The device just malfunctioned, died and killed my USB port with it.. kind of sad since it is a 4 months old, 200$ motherboard :/ now I need to use my super expensive mobile internet until I find another wireless adapter :(

mStuff:
Also sad since my old pc, a laptop, had all of its usb ports killed the same way, that was just a cooler master laptop cooler and a bad power adapter. :(
But the dwa-125 worked fine on that laptop until it broke :/

FurryNutz:
Could have been an incompatibility issue with your new board and might have been USB 3.0 in which the voltage on the USB 3.0 could differ from 2.0. I presume that maybe the USB 3.0 port on this new PC might not have been backwards compatible and thus did not allow for the USB 2.0 DWA-125 proper operation. I would recommend looking for a USB 3.0 compliant WiFi adapter. Or if you rather, check out a DAP model Bridge device like a DAP-1320, 1360, 1522 or 1533 and use that as your adapter and connect it to the LAN port on the new PC. Has better speed and operation over LAN. The DWA-180 adapter is USB 3.0 compliant. I have one and had to upgrade my PC to USB 3.0. Works great here.

Good Luck

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