ASRock XUSB fast interferring?

Rfisher

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Aug 21, 2013
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I'm having an issue I can't seem to fix with Bluetooth since I have recently upgraded. I went with ASRock Extreme4. Before upgrading to this setup I was using a USB Bluetooth dongle from Targus. After the upgrade I had to do a fresh restart of windows. After that windows wouldn't even recognize Bluetooth on my computer. A friend of mine chalked it up to the dongle being bad even though it worked the day before the upgrade. It was old and had a piece broken so I replaced it. The computer seems to be recognizing Bluetooth now and with all the correct drivers and even showing the paired headsets I paired with it. My issue is every time I try and connect it is freezing the screen into a not responding state. Happens with the 3 headsets I have tried. Even though they show paired they just need to connect.

I wonder if because this the Xfast with this board. I actually really like the x fast and I have noticed a difference in transfer times when loading and transferring via USB so I would rather not uninstall if I could help it. But I don't want my Bluetooth investment to go down the drain. I really only use my Bluetooth for VoIP on my computer and it seems like even a new dongle won't fix it. Any suggestion or think uninstalling this might be the key, even though everything seems to be normal other then the actual connecting part?
 
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Could you be more specific about "It was old and had a piece broken so I replaced it."? If it had a important part broken or compromised, the screen will always freeze in an attemp to connect the bluetooth. It is like a HDD trying to write over or read from a corrupted sector/cluster. Maybe it is using the channel for data transfer, but this channel is damaged and it causes a failure response.
You could try pluggin the bluetooth in another machine.
 

Rfisher

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Sorry I wasn't specific enough. The old dongle I had had a piece broken off, I replaced the whole dongle. Its the exact same one bought from the exact same place.