Can't find working USB 3.0 drivers after motherboard upgrade (Inspirion n5110)

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I recently replaced my inspirion 15r n5110's motherboard with a slightly better model, one that included an onboard gt525m instead of just integrated graphics, (I also had to replace heatsink because of that) I installed new chipset drivers and the nvidia drivers etc and I got everything working besides the usb 3.0 ports, I tried installing many different versions of the usb 3.0 controller drivers none of them would work.

For some reason the dell>drivers>r309746>setup.exe did nothing, r309746 had subfolders "NEC" and "TI," each had a setup.exe I tried the TI one and it said I had no compatible hardware, I tried the NEC one and it installed and it didn't work, but it gave me a usb 3.0 host controller utility in my start menu, when I ran it it said usb 3.0 host controller not found.

( I rebooted after each installation)


I also updated my BIOS to the latest revision.


Sorry for the bad grammar it's 2am I've been trying to get this to work for hours.




 
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here is what you do, go to device manager and right click your USB host controller prob a yellow ? mark and select properties. In the window that opens select the details tab and Hardware Ids from the dropdown box. Every device has a built in ID which you can look up to see who made it and what model it is, even without a driver windows can display that.

The VEN is the manufacturer, the DEV is device...

Then you go get your driver on.


 
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There was no yellow mark which was weird, there were just 2 "generic usb root hubs" someone told me to uninstall the generic windows driver and then to run windows update, so I uninstalled it and I am running windows update right now. ( I doubt that will work )

if that doesn't work Ill do what you said and see if I can get working drivers.
 
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usbproblems.jpg


... What am I supposed to do exactly?
 
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Even though there is no yellow question marks or triangles or anything, click on the generic root hubs and do the same steps as I posted before.

Then look here or just cut and paste the entirelast pci/ven line you get in google. Some kind of information about the real maker and or drivers should present itself.

If this does not make sense let me know and we will go step by step.



 
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