Front panel USB ports not working

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papagiannakos

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I just recently built a new system and none of the front panel USB ports detect devices properly. This includes the case USB 2.0 ports and the USB 2.0 port on my Rosewill Card Reader.

When I plug in a USB stick to one of these USB ports, Vista acknowledges the attachment of a device with the little ping sound, but it does not show up in the list of drives. Worse, the Computer screen listing all the drives freezes until I remove the USB stick.

The Card Reader works for memory cards, etc., but its own USB port has the same problem.

Confounding even more, is that in Device Manager there are no exclamation points under the USB section. According to Windows all the USB ports and drivers are fine.

All my front USB ports are connected to motherboard headers correctly. The built-in mobo USB ports on the back also work just fine.

I'm running Vista 64 SP1 on an Asus P5Q Pro motherboard with the latest BIOS. USB options in the BIOS are set to default as well. Anyone have an idea what the problem is with the front USB ports/headers? Is there some special Asus USB drivers I don't know about?
 
i was gonna say to you to check the correct connections of the internal USB ports, but if u´ve done that correctly, well, try checking on the "device manager" and see if there is any conflict with the hardware. Also do the cables of the internal USB are okey? in good shape? gotta avoid twisting it, and for better results, magnetic fields oughta be avoided (like the one generated by a big fan)
 
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