USB Woes!

What the hell is going on?

  • Hardware Issue

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  • Software Issue

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  • Fubar and I hate my life!

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Salorian

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Hey [H],

Need some help here. :-(

I just made some recent hardware changes to my system after my motherboard fried. As a result of this my 4850x2 2GB was taken out as well as my fan controller.

I have purchased the exact same motherboard and installed it in my system, I then find out the 4850x2 2GB is no longer working/fan controller. I've replaced the 4850x2 with a 8600GT (bleh) and gotten a new fan controller as well as 2 WD Black 1TB drives, because I can't control myself at Microcenter.

Everything has been installed and I was able to boot into Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit in a RAID 1. However, I have almost no USB support!

During the Windows 7 Install, I had to stop the installation process and reboot as my daskeyboard ultimate was not being recognized many times.

Once installed, I plugged in my 8GB usb flash drive and Windows reported that a new device has been connected, but cannot be used due to having driver errors.

USB Devices:

Razer Mamba
daskeyboard Ultimate
Random USB Mic
80gb Maxtor One Touch external HD
8GB Flash Drive
2GB Flash Drive

System Specs:

Gigabyte GAP45-UD3P rev 1.6 (FB bios)
Q6600 (stock)
x2 WD Black 1TB HD
8600GT
550w HX550somethingsomething

Partitioned as:

C:\ 100GB (OS)
D:\ 1.6TB (Data)
E:\ 100GB (Program Files)

This exact same thing is currently happening on my ASUS K50IJ notebook, also running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and this situation as occured on my current desktop way back when on an install of Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit.

Anyone got some ideas? I've tried updating the chipset drivers/raid controller. Installed all required Windows Updates. My NIC was uninstalled and given no driver after the Windows Updates. I am currently wiping it out and starting over and experiencing the exact same USB keyboard issues.
 
so which USB devices are working? so we can figure out if its hardware or software.. or are none of them working?
 
Working USB devices:

Razer Mamba
das ultimate keyboard (must unplug/plugin sometimes)
USB desk mic
 
have you tried messing with the different USB ports? see if its the ports that are bad and not windows its self?

also if you really want to see if its a hardware problem or driver problem.. download ubuntu live CD (its free).. boot into that and connect the flash drives/external drives.. if it doesnt detect them correctly.. then my best opinion is that theres a hardware problem.. now if it detects them perfectly fine and are useable(the live cd can only write to fat32 so dont try to write to them if they arent fat32 but it can read both fat32 and NTFS formats) then id say its a software issue.. that would be the easiest way to test everything without having to sit there and play with drivers and reinstalling OS's every hour..
 
Hmm.

I have plugged all of my USB devices into a Macbook Pro, and they were all detected and operating normally. I am not convinced its a hardware issue, as my notebook is giving the same behavior when USB devices are plugged in.

Is it possible that the data is corrupted on my flash drives/external hard drives? The 8GB flash drive is brand new, never had a file on it.
 
I had this problem once... None of my usb ports worked. For some reason, when i checked my bios setting the usb were disable.
 
its possible the data become corrupt when the motherboard fried.. try formatting the 8 gig flash drive on your macpro in fat32 mode.. im sure OSX can do that.. then put it on the system in question and see what happens..
 
Formatted all my flash drives in OS X, same issue still occurs on both laptop and the desktop. :-\

This sucks, I can't move forward on my Win 7 install until I can get my data off my extneral HD. >_<
 
Update: All 3 usb drives work fine in my laptop now.

After Installing/Updating Windows 7 on my desktop, my NIC driver got uninstalled and it then began failing to load windows, would just hang. I have a fresh install of Vista on it now and if I plug in a flash drive, USB device is not recognized and it is installed as an unknown device.

It's not the drives
It's not the OS
It has to be hardware...but what? Some USB work, keyboard is flaky, mouse always works. Could my PSU have been damaged when the motherboard fried as well?

As a side note, I am running the NZXT Sentry Fan Controller with 8 3000 RPM Ultra Kaze fans hooked into it via y-splitters. The fans all operate at different RPM's and go up and down very rapidly. When using manual settings, I cannot raid any one fan above 1400 RPM. PSU issue as well, or is the NZXT Sentry not able to handle the load?

Thanks :\
 
I didn't see any USB drivers on Gigabytes website, only chipset drivers for Vista. I installed them and then Windows Update uninstalled them due to being old. :-\
 
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