Tech Help? USB ports not responding.

#1

boutros

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When I've been playing TF2 for any considerable length of time my Keyboard/Mouse/Snowball all stop providing input to my computer, but are still powered. None of my USB ports are responsive. Hard resetting my computer and pulling out my power cord for a few minutes seems to fix it every time. I'm concerned with this issue as it's newly occurring and doesn't seem to be showing any signs of stopping. Any help or input would be greatly appreciated.

#2

Sincostan

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What mouse are you using? This used to happen to me when I had my Logitech G500. The wire was bad and so whenever I would rapidly move the mouse, it would lose connection and for some strange reason basically disable any USB peripherals from being responsive. Restarting always fixed it for me as well so this may be your issue.

#3

MasterKuni

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SincostanThe wire was bad and so whenever I would rapidly move the mouse, it would lose connection and for some strange reason basically disable any USB peripherals from being responsive.

Sounds to me like the wire was shorting and your motherboard's USB over-current protection circuitry kicked in. It's probably something along the lines of a resettable fuse which is why it takes a reboot. May also be the OP's problem.

[quote=Sincostan]The wire was bad and so whenever I would rapidly move the mouse, it would lose connection and for some strange reason basically disable any USB peripherals from being responsive.[/quote]

Sounds to me like the wire was shorting and your motherboard's USB over-current protection circuitry kicked in. It's probably something along the lines of a resettable fuse which is why it takes a reboot. May also be the OP's problem.

#4

gls

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could be power supply if they don't work in bios as well

#5

Dave_

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try turning off selective suspending of usb ports in your windows settings

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp325/yandyr/procede_power_settings_vista_win7/pro_power_06.png

try turning off selective suspending of usb ports in your windows settings
[img]http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp325/yandyr/procede_power_settings_vista_win7/pro_power_06.png[/img]

#6

boutros

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SincostanWhat mouse are you using? This used to happen to me when I had my Logitech G500. The wire was bad and so whenever I would rapidly move the mouse, it would lose connection and for some strange reason basically disable any USB peripherals from being responsive. Restarting always fixed it for me as well so this may be your issue.

I'm using a g400s, and as much as I can remember it has happened after more flaily mouse movements. I don't have another mouse I could use to test this theory but I'll try and be mindful of it next time.

Dave_try turning off selective suspending of usb ports in your windows settings
http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp325/yandyr/procede_power_settings_vista_win7/pro_power_06.png

I've just tried this and hopefully this fixes my problem.

[quote=Sincostan]What mouse are you using? This used to happen to me when I had my Logitech G500. The wire was bad and so whenever I would rapidly move the mouse, it would lose connection and for some strange reason basically disable any USB peripherals from being responsive. Restarting always fixed it for me as well so this may be your issue.[/quote]
I'm using a g400s, and as much as I can remember it has happened after more flaily mouse movements. I don't have another mouse I could use to test this theory but I'll try and be mindful of it next time.

[quote=Dave_]try turning off selective suspending of usb ports in your windows settings
[img]http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp325/yandyr/procede_power_settings_vista_win7/pro_power_06.png[/img][/quote]
I've just tried this and hopefully this fixes my problem.