All USB devices Disconnect randomly on Windows 11.

Anonymous
2023-10-09T03:59:17+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-11T12:21:09+00:00

    Whatever is causing these USB disconnect issues, one thing is for sure, there is a way around it. Allow me to explain...

    So in my setup, I have a Dell monitor with two side mounted USB sockets, these are just piggy backed off the rear of my computer. Whenever I plug USB devices into my monitor, mobile phone, USB thumb drives USB Docking Stations, I don't get any disconnect issues and never have. Ironically however connecting any of those USB devices directly to the back of my computer does cause frequent disconnects. Likewise if I connect anything to the front USB ports on my computer the same issue arises, frequent disconnects.

    However!

    Yesterday I took delivery of a Tccmebius IDE-SATA HDD Docking Station, this particular model has front facing 'XD-TF-MS-CF/MD-SD' Card Readers alongside 2 x USB ports. Although this model is only USB 2.0, I have connected it to one of the free USB 3.1 ports at the rear of my computer as these were the only ones available. Surprisingly, I can now read & write data to my hearts content from a USB Thumb Drive and likewise, plugging in my phone doesn't cause any disconnects either.

    Now I might be clutching at straws here but I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the Windows USB controllers, I believe others have hinted at this too. I noticed on my system that both the USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 controllers received a diver update on the 21st May 2024, right around when I first started experiencing these issues. Whereas the USB 2.0 controllers haven't been updated since 2006.

    If only Microsoft would provide a little input here, it's frustrating when they don't seem to care!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-11T08:40:21+00:00

    FIXED It!

    I wrote a small program to read and rewrite to a small TXT file on the USB drive and it no longer drops out.

    OK It's just a work-around not a true fix😞

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-08T02:03:29+00:00

    13 and 14th gen intel = bad

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-08T00:36:26+00:00

    my issue might be related to Intel chip:

    Your computer was identified as having an Intel Core 13th or 14th generation processor. To learn more about recent instability issues identified by Intel, read this article.

    I will download the new BIOS to see if it can fix the USB not working & youtube video keeps spinning circle issues.

    update: updating BIOS to incorporte Intel 13th/14th gen processor issue patch seems have fixed USB issue.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-07T21:11:49+00:00

    are you able to return the pc? can i see some photos? did you update drivers?

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