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Spydur ALC • 4 months ago
USB port fail after Windows 10 upgrade
Upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 (64). Soon thereafter,
two of four USB ports stopped working.
I initially restored these by going to Device Manager,
Universal Serial Bus controllers, and disabling and then re-enabling the
following drivers on my desktop PC (Dell XPS One 2710):
Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host
Controller – 1.0 (Microsoft), and
Texas Instruments USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller
This only worked for a little while.
I searched for updated drivers. None to be found or had.
I next Uninstalled the drivers for both devices, above, and
re-booted. The onboard drivers reloaded and the USB ports worked again… for a
few hours.
Stumbling around and while looking through Startup programs
in Task Manager, I discovered the Intel® USB 3.0 Monitor.
I disabled it and re-booted.
So far, so good. Perhaps Intel’s USB monitor doesn’t play
well (yet?) with Windows 10…
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If it is a problem with the Intel USB monitor (which IMO is probably unnecessary bloat if it's loaded at start up), then that might explain why it's not happening on some (most ?) systems.
I've seen this reported for Kindles and Kobo, but I don't recall seeing anything for tablets - does that make sense?
@PeterT - if not a camera or a phone, then what sort of device would be similar to an e-reader?
FWIW calibre 64bit on my 'upgraded from Windows 7 to 10' machine can see a 'visiting' Kindle and my 'droid tablet. I don't run the Intel USB monitor, but 'just for fun', I started my NEC USB3.0 Adapter Monitor, calibre can still see the Kindle.
BR