I have an interesting yet annoying problem. I have reason to believe that my USB controller on my motherboard may be going bad. I get random blue screens (I failed to copy the error code but if it happens again I will update), that originally led me to believe that I may have a RAM or Hard Drive issue.
I ran both memtest and VIVARD (tool for testing hard drives), but came up with nothing. I also stress tested both my CPU and Graphics card and came up with no errors. I then figured it might be malware and ran test for that and still came up with nothing.
I did notice, however, that my USB 2.0 ports randomly quit working. For instance, I may have to plug my printer into a different port for my PC to recognize it, or my flash drive may quit working etc. However, when I cold boot my PC everything is back to normal.
I tried reinstalling my chipset drivers thinking that they may have become corrupted, but when I try to reinstall them my PC blue screens and restarts. Leading me to believe that there is a problem with the controller itself.
I do have 3.0 ports that don't seem to be effected by this problem so I keep my keyboard and mouse plugged into those (which is annoying because I like to reserve those for my external drives.)
I have come to the conclusion that a motherboard replacement may be my only option, but I was wondering if there is something that I may have overlooked.
System Specs are as follows:
Motherboard: Gigabyte ga970a-UD3 Version 1.0
CPU: AMD FX 8350
RAM: 16GB Gskill Sniper Series 1866MHz (Clocked at 1600MHz due to chipset limitations.)
Hard Drive: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
Secondary Drive: 3TB Hitachi Deskstar
Graphics Card: 6GB Saphire Vapor X 7970 GHZ Edition
Optical Drive: 12X Pioneer Blu-ray burner
Power Supply: Coolmax 850 watts
Operating System: Windows 8.1 64bit
Bios Version: Award F6 Version Date 5/30/2012
I ran both memtest and VIVARD (tool for testing hard drives), but came up with nothing. I also stress tested both my CPU and Graphics card and came up with no errors. I then figured it might be malware and ran test for that and still came up with nothing.
I did notice, however, that my USB 2.0 ports randomly quit working. For instance, I may have to plug my printer into a different port for my PC to recognize it, or my flash drive may quit working etc. However, when I cold boot my PC everything is back to normal.
I tried reinstalling my chipset drivers thinking that they may have become corrupted, but when I try to reinstall them my PC blue screens and restarts. Leading me to believe that there is a problem with the controller itself.
I do have 3.0 ports that don't seem to be effected by this problem so I keep my keyboard and mouse plugged into those (which is annoying because I like to reserve those for my external drives.)
I have come to the conclusion that a motherboard replacement may be my only option, but I was wondering if there is something that I may have overlooked.
System Specs are as follows:
Motherboard: Gigabyte ga970a-UD3 Version 1.0
CPU: AMD FX 8350
RAM: 16GB Gskill Sniper Series 1866MHz (Clocked at 1600MHz due to chipset limitations.)
Hard Drive: 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
Secondary Drive: 3TB Hitachi Deskstar
Graphics Card: 6GB Saphire Vapor X 7970 GHZ Edition
Optical Drive: 12X Pioneer Blu-ray burner
Power Supply: Coolmax 850 watts
Operating System: Windows 8.1 64bit
Bios Version: Award F6 Version Date 5/30/2012