Over-Current condition on port 7 or 8

I am having a problem with my USB ports. It shows over-current conditions on ports 7 and 8. I have heard that this is caused by a damaged USB port, and since it is detecting it on two ports it seems that I have two that are broken. I do indeed have two that do not work, so that is not the issue.

What I would like to do is disable whatever program is running over-current condition checks. tty's are unusable at this point. Every few second a new over-current condition occurs.

Here is the output of dmesg: http://pastebin.com/CuFKRGue

Is there an easy way to disable these checks or damage the ports to a point where it will no longer check? Fixing them is not important or an option.

Add the following kernel option and see if it helps -- it tells the USB driver to ignore overcurrent (OC) alerts. This is only for USB 2.0 ports -- it will not work for USB 3.0, or USB 1.0 (unlikely if your computer was made after 2001 or so).

ehci_hcd.ignore_OC=1

Edit GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub to include this option and run sudo update-grub

Reboot and see; if it doesn't work, please pastebin full dmesg.