All USB devices Disconnect randomly on Windows 11.

Come on Microsoft, this is ridiculous! 70% of the population couldn't update existing hardware to W11 and those of us that did have to suffer without resolution. I've just bought a new USB 3.0 hub to try and resolve this annoying problem of random/constant disconnections but the issue is affecting this one too! Now it seems whatever USB port I plug into can be there one minute and not the next. We can't all have faulty equipment.

None of your proposed solutions work for me, besides how do you disable power management on a device that's there one second and not the next? I use my USB sockets frequently throughout the day, or at least I would like to but Windows 11 is letting me down badly.

I've done all the suggestions mentioned here, checked I have the latest chipset drivers and I've even updated my BIOS, all a complete waste of my time. For me personally restarting the computer doesn't fix these problems.

I have the same issue on my Windows 11 machine (23H2, Dell G15 5511 2021), although I cannot establish a direct link to the transition from 10 as in your case. It occurs rarely enough that the restart solution works. But a slight increase in frequency would certainly prompt me to seriously search for a culprit. This random behavior is extremely annoying. Any new insights on this?

Hello,

I'm so glad to see that I'm not going crazy! I recently upgraded from 23H2 to 24H2 on my 13900k PC with RTX 4090 graphics card and this problem started happening to me also. I searched the web far and wide and finally came across this post which describes the exact same problem I'm having. I have my keyboard connected directly to the PC via the top USB port on the back of the PC which is USB 3.0 and I have a 16 port Anker USB 3.0 powered hub directly connected to the USB 3.2 port on the motherboard with all my other peripherals connected to it including my Logitech G602 wireless mouse.

The computer will just randomly make the USB disconnect noise and everything will shut down including my Stream Deck's, Mixer Board, Keyboard, Mouse, etc as if I unplugged them all from the system simultaneously and they even disappear in device manager when this happens for 5-10 seconds and then they all start popping back online making the connected noises. This never happened on 23H2 but now happens a few times an hour on 24H2 almost making the computer unusable. I've also noticed that if I'm in the middle of typing when it happens the last keystroke I made just repeats over and over again until the keyboard comes back online along with everything else. It's a very bizarre problem and I've tried so many things to try and solve it like disabling the sleep for USB hubs and devices under device manager and it does nothing.

I will add that I've had a few times where everything disconnects and just never comes back, and I have to physically shut down the computer with the power button and turn it back on for it to boot up and for me to have any USB devices working again. This only happens once or twice a day though whereas the disconnect and reconnect in 5-10 seconds happens multiple times at random every day. I've also had it happen both while using edge and while not suing edge, but edge may have been open since I don't have it disabled on boot and it's always in the background. I noticed some people saying that edge might be the problem so I figured I would volunteer that information.

This problem is 100% localized to 24H2 over 23H2 since it didn't occur on 23H2 after 6+ months of running it on this PC, not even once. But it happens at least once an hour with 24H2 and sometimes as frequently as 2-3 times in 10 minutes, so I have no idea what is causing it to happen. One other major symptom that I noticed that nobody else seems to be mentioning the thread from what I read is that sometimes when I boot up my PC my PCIe 10GB nic driver doesn't load. I'll open device manager and it's nowhere to be found and I have no internet connection. I have to physically restart the PC for it to come back online. This never happened in 23H2 also. So, I suspect the problem that is causing the USB devices to disconnect and reconnect is also causing other PCIe devices to disconnect and reconnect that I just didn't notice before since I couldn't use the PC while all my HID devices were offline for 5-10 seconds.

I also noticed while live streaming this last Saturday on YouTube for a few hours that the network would also disconnect and reconnect on occasion and I'm wondering if the nic is disappearing and reappearing during these instances also but I didn't have device manager open so I can't be certain. All I know is that i just randomly started dropping packets from my ping test I run to test internet during my live streams, and it would just lose a few frames before getting responses again and I verified from my Unifi switch that internet never went down during that time so it must have been related to something on my PC causing the internet to disconnect. Perhaps next stream I will also ping a local source like my gateway and see if those packets get dropped during the outage also which would confirm this is possibly related.

I tried playing with some BIOS settings to ensure that USB devices are never powered down and I also changed the power profile plan and device manager power settings for everything to make sure it never goes to sleep but it has no impact the problem still occurs completely at random. The programs loaded at the time this happens most commonly would be MSI Afterburner, Discord, iCloud, Elgato Control Center, PowerToys, Steam, TailScale, 3D Connexxion space navigator, signal, NordVPN and UniGetUI. These are the default programs loaded when the PC is running. However, I've closed a bunch of them and the problem will still happen, so I don't think any of them are contributing to it's frequency but I wanted to make it clear what was running in case anyone else saw some correlation.

It's been a nightmare trying to work on this PC with this issue persisting and I've also asked my audience about it on social media and several other people have reported similar problems with USB devices disconnecting and reconnection all at once in 24H2 that isn't happening on 23H2. This doesn't impact every PC obviously because I have a PC in my bedroom that is a 7700k with RTX 3080 that works just fine and an AMD Laptop that also works perfectly with 24H2 without any problems with USB disconnect/reconnect or NIC for that matter. This seems to only impact my main machine that I upgraded from 23H2.

All my system information is below along with screen shots from all my USB controllers, hubs and composite devices. I did notice that one of them has a driver from 2006 which I thought was a bit on the old side, but I never confirmed the driver version or date under 23H2 so I'm not sure if it's different or not. But, I told it to check for driver updates and it didn't find any so it wouldn't have installed a driver this old during the upgrade process if it didn't get it online somewhere and it was newer than the previous version, right?

I worked at Microsoft for 15 years on the Windows ESC team running quality gates for WINMAIN so if anyone wants to work with me directly to triage this further and try to get to the bottom of it I'm game since I would like to have my PC stable again! Also, I hope this leads to a solution since a lot of people seem to be impacted by this and nobody seems to be any closer to an actual solution. All we know for sure is this is 100% related to 24H2 since 23H2 didn't have any of these problems at all. And whatever is causing the problems seems to be related to PCIe devices unloading and loading and not necessarily just USB devices since it also seems to impact my 10GB NIC and sometimes like I said it won't even show up at all after booting and I have to physically reboot the machine for it to show up under device manager even if I tell it to scan for new hardware it won't load it. So, it's almost like the BIOS or UEFI isn't presenting the devices to the operating system or breaking the link between the OS and the hardware. Did anything change related to the hardware abstraction layer for 24H2 or UEFI handoff? Because my guess is that it's somewhere in there and there is some common thread, we haven't discovered yet between all of us that is causing this bug to be triggered, and it could be something related to BIOS settings or hardware timings or even IRQ/DMA ****.

Let me know if you guys want any more information to try and figure this out? In the meantime everyone else should post their machine information and USB driver information under device manager and also let us know if you're seeing other PCIe devices like NIC and GPU connect and disconnect. Actually, now that I think about it, I also had a problem where one of my displays would also disappear from device manager entirely and say it doesn't get a signal when I switch between HDR and non-HDR with CTRL+WIN+B and I would have to reboot for the display to come back. So, that's yet another driver that unloads and doesn't come back. But, the GPU hasn't done it to my knowledge yet and the other 2 screens still continued working so it was specific to the display driver for the individual monitor and not the GPU itself. Perhaps because the GPU is more low level of a driver with different rules because of the WDDM driver model stuff so the PC doesn't blue screen on driver failure is protecting it from hitting the same PCIe unload/reload problem but it's not protecting the actual driver for the display itself that gets the EID data and sets the resolution, refresh rate, etc. I'm just thinking out loud.

System Information
OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Pro

Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name BARNACULESPC

System Manufacturer ASRock

System Model Z790 Pro RS

System Type x64-based PC

System SKU To Be Filled By O.E.M.

Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K, 3000 Mhz, 24 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends International, LLC. 16.02, 1/13/2025

SMBIOS Version 3.5

Embedded Controller Version 255.255

BIOS Mode UEFI

BaseBoard Manufacturer ASRock

BaseBoard Product Z790 Pro RS

BaseBoard Version

Platform Role Desktop

Secure Boot State Off

PCR7 Configuration Elevation Required to View

Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS

System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.26100.1"

User Name BARNACULESPC\Jerry

Time Zone Pacific Standard Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 96.0 GB

Total Physical Memory 95.8 GB

Available Physical Memory 77.9 GB

Total Virtual Memory 102 GB

Available Virtual Memory 78.4 GB

Page File Space 6.00 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Kernel DMA Protection On

Universal Serial Bus Controllers

Thank you,

Jerry (aka. Barnacules)

https://linktr.ee/barnacules

Microsoft, we would really like a solution please. I have patched and updated windows. I have updated the chipset drivers. Still getting the data from USB devices disconnecting. I can't transfer files or even use File Explorer on external hard drives because the device keeps disconnecting (phones and hard drives, all using separate cables and even different USB ports). After a disconnect, file explorer will restart nearly immediately and I will have to go through the file trees again to get where I was and may get a couple of seconds into a transfer or viewing the contents of a folder and it will disconnect again starting the process over again and again. Note that the power on my phone stays connected the entire time. It is only the data connection that is being interrupted with me. If I turn off the data connection on the phone and use it only as a USB charger, I don't get any disconnecting/reconnecting power sounds on the phone. Only when I allow data transfer do I get the found new device sounds pinging multiple times per minute from either the phone, external drives, or computer. MS-7C95 motherboard.

I suspect proper power is not going to usb devices from motherboard.

Take your MB to nearest service centre..