It is not a continuous light like when you insert it into a working port. When I try to use the iLok in the other USB port it works absolutely fine, but when I insert it into the USB port in question, the light never turns on.Īfter resetting the SMC, when I plug the iLok dongle into the faulty port, The light comes on but it keeps blinking. The iLok dongle has a tiny blue led light that is turned on when you insert it into a USB port. When I did, unfortunately, none of them worked for me. I was really excited to try these solutions. I still wanted to be sure so I researched online and a lot of people had exactly the same issue and resetting NVRAM or SMC fixed it for them. Initially I thought that the port has died because of the humid conditions as I have faced a similar issue with my MSI dragon series gaming laptop (which again I use for recording and music production) where some of the keys on the builtin keyboard won't respond after I accidentally left my laptop in the studio for a couple days. While recording I need to use both the USB ports as I need one for the iLok and another one for my audio interface ( Roland Quad Capture).Īs my studio is in a basement, it get's really humid there. All of sudden when I went to the studio to record an artist, I found that one of the USB ports (one next to the SD card slot) won't recognize any of the devices that I plug-in.
I am using a Macbook Pro running Sierra 10.12.6.