I'm having some troubles at work with my USB ports. This is nearly a brand new computer, been working fine for a month or so now. This just started up today. The front USB ports in my case are no longer functioning, which are hooked into the motherboard USB headers. And 3 of the four USB ports on the motherboard have quit working, only one is now functioning. Nothing has changed on the computer, i used a USB camera yesterday and it worked fine. I shut it down normally last night, came back in this morning, and it won't connect. Putting my USB drive into each slot, it does not light up except on one. Same issue with my PDA docking station or anything else USB. I'm using a ASUS P5B, and Windows Vista Ultimate. I've tried looking for USB drivers for this board, thinking it might be a vista problem, so that i could uninstall and reinstall, but no luck. This is really driving me nuts, can you help me out? Thanks.
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USB Ports Stopped Working
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I would say you need to rma the mobo, as that shouldn't happen. Sounds like the USB controller died.
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Go into device manager. Do you see any Unkown Hardware listings?
did you make any changes, especially in the bios? check that all the usb ports are active from the bios, or just reset it if you cant find it. also check that everything look normal in the device manager, as someone mentioned above. a last option would be to try 'system restore'.