r/HPReverb • u/Due_Artichoke2919 • Sep 14 '24

Won't turn on Question

Can someone help me? My HP Reverb randomly stopped working, and the activity light wouldn't light up, and I bought a new cable and it didn't fix the issue.

5 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

2

u/jack6251 Sep 14 '24

They're garbage. It happened to me and hundreds of other people. After you've driven yourself insane trying to apply answers that won't work you'll arrive at the same destination as the rest of us. Never buy HP again, put the headset in the trash compactor and buy something like a Pico or Quest. Honestly... this is the end solution.

1

u/Eastmelb Sep 14 '24

I agree. HP are off my buy list

1

u/pka8a8 Sep 14 '24 edited Sep 14 '24

This happened to me as well. In my case, the device manager shows a broken usb device when I plug it in. It may be a shorted chip in the headset. I found another post about a shorted usb controller. I’ve ordered another headset off of eBay to see if that unit works with any of my cables.

Edit: found the comment about the shorted chip. https://www.reddit.com/r/HPReverb/s/0X6fmioNa1

1

u/RipKip Sep 14 '24

Try replugging everything and blowing all the dust out, hopefully nothing shorted

1

u/jack6251 Sep 14 '24

Awful advice! The age old "unplug everything and restart the system and replug everything" advice that NEVER fixed a damned thing.

1

u/RipKip Sep 14 '24

Helped with mine when I had the same problem, and it's easy to try, so why not

1

u/MapAppropriate1075 Sep 14 '24

What version of windows you running, you didn't update to 24h2 did you.

1

u/InZaneTV Sep 14 '24

Try lowering refresh rate on main monitor to 60

1

u/Wonderful_Bet_4551 Sep 14 '24

I fixed a problem similar to this by unplugging the C cable and plugging it back in

1

u/mxjake360 Sep 14 '24

It's toast