Whatever I read made me think it was some sort of standard. You know more about this than me, so now I think what I stated about unplugging and re-plugging is

Whatever I read made me think it was some sort of standard. You know more about this than me, so now I think what I stated about unplugging and re-plugging is likely incorrect advice, one step above "turn the cable around" which I think also works enough of the time that people keep trying it and repeating it as a method.