Don't plug it into USB or else

Our Garmin Forerunner 205 has damaged two of our computer motherboards after plugging it into a USB port.  This has only happened when the Forerunner was heavily used for a couple hours and needed to be recharged.  The first time it happened I thought it was my fault with having just installed a new video card that needed higher power requirements then what my computer had.

After replacing the first motherboard and upgrading the computer power supply to an ample 450 watts the second motherboard was damaged after plugging the Forerunner 205 into the USB port.  Again, we had just used the Forerunner for tracking our trail ride and it needed recharging.

I called Garmin to let them know what had happened and they said they were not aware of this problem.  When I mentioned I had read other reviews with the same problem the Garmin representative qualified his story by saying this problem had never crossed his desk.

Be sure to recharge the Forerunner 205 with its own power supply before connecting it to a computer for downloading.  The capacitors on the ASUS P4SA-LA motherboards obviously can’t handle the recharge load.  This may be a flaw with the quality of the capacitors but I'm not about to try it in another computer.  I'll leave that for the Garmin engineers to do.