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All of my USB devices randomly disconnect and will sometimes reconnect on their own in 10-20 seconds. Other times when they do not reconnect I have to completely restart the PC to get devices back working. I have tried uninstalling drivers for the USB roothubs and devices with no luck of a fix. I have not seen this issue addressed elsewhere or corrected. Other instances have not been similar to mine and this issue was non existent before upgrading to Win11. I even did a repair install of Win11 with no luck either. Any help or fixes would be greatly appreciated.
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So I disabled updates, it worked fine for 2 days, then I get an amazing disconnect-reconnect but even the game freezes after disconnect. So, uhm. I'm really thinking of trying a Ubuntu LiveCD for a while, to see if it's even a O.S./driver/program issue. IF it's not, ladies and gents, we're a huge group of lucky people that got a stupid hardware defect that developed in an unknown way.
same issue again!!! :(
Windows Update disabled dosn't work!
AURA CONTROLLER disabled doesn't work!
My mouse and keyboard had frozen, so I pressed the power button on the case once to turn off the PC, and the USB ports reactivated. I canceled the automatic shutdown screen of the applications and continued using the PC; this happened twice in a row. Then I closed Houdini (the software I use for CGI) and since then it hasn't happened again.
In my opinion, there are many different causes, not just one. Understanding what they are and how many seems impossible. There are too many variables at play.
I did it. At the same time, I also have AURA controllers disabled and Windows Update paused.
I don't have the USB AURA LED CONTROLLER on my system but still have the same issue as everyone else so I think that rules that out of the equation.
I've a Gigabyte motherboard on this pc and an ASUS on the other pc that has this issue. So I don't think that it's motherboard specific.
I have a bit more information too, though:
I just uninstalled the only 2 possible updates from the pc it asked for me to restart and I didn't, cause I was watching some twitch stream and out of a sudden, it started doing it 6-7 times one after another, I had time to start the diagnostic apps that I have [ProcMon and USBDeview] and I logged the operations and I was looking at the voltages on the USB Ports. So the USB power just disappeared for the period of the "off", I know it's logical but at least it didn't show that they were overcharged, so there is something turning them off. I have to check now the huge 21 million operations and filter out for the timeline that the disconnects happened, and see if there was a trigger operation or not. So, uh... I'll get back on that.
There are still updates that have been made in 8th and 18th of June for me, that I can't uninstall [at least not with the default add/remove app from windows]. But what makes me ponder quite a bit is... that it's not a recent issue. There are posts that date back to 2020 if I remember correctly, which means that it might not be an update issue but something else.
My following tests will be, to check the said operations when the disconnects happened, maybe I see a pattern and if that doesn't make any sense I will try a Linux LiveCD Distro for a day or two to check if that still happens.
check the cable type.
I mean, it needs to be a Data cable and not just a charging cable.
