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So for a while now my media PC has begun exhibiting instability, weird behaviour like stalling during going to sleep mode, inability to wake from seemingly successful sleep modes. Other issues has been one or two blue screens stating power state issues, others showing USB as the culprit. Also one instance of DPC Watchdog Violation. There were minor (possibly unrelated) issues for a while like motherboard losing time/bios settings, relatively frequent popping on my 5.1 surround. The major issues seemed to start after attaching a USB-c webcam (logitech streamcam) to the device, coinciding with the earliest issues with putting the device to sleep. It also caused graphical interference on my capture card and caused the USB bluescreen. This made me assume the webcam was the cause, and removing it did reduce the frequency of the behaviour. Then the whole PC shut down in short protection when I tried to plug a USB-c blindly in the back and hit a wrong port. Another recent issue has been the PC video and audio freezing for a very brief while every second or so for a variable amount of time. Not causing shutdowns or anything else, just making the experience unpleasant for a bit Since then issues have seemed to persist quite consistently making me assume it's a power issue, most likely on the motherboard, but I don't really know of a surefire way of determining for sure or if it may be the power supply or even something else. System specs Windows 10 pro x64 21H1 (19043.1110) Asrock x470 Master SLI Bios 4.40 (latest) Ryzen 7 2700 2x8 Corsair 3000mhz CL15 Palit Geforce GTX 1050 Ti KalmX NoFan P-500A Silent 500W NVME 1TB Intel 660p (boot) SATA 1TB Crucial 500MX Capture cards tested: StarTech PEXHDCAP60L2 and AVerMedia H727 Blue Snowball usb microphone Logitech G502 Hero usb mouse Logitech G710+ usb keyboard HERE is the results of my Sysnative analysis. I tried to run perfmon, but I've run it several times from a couple of minutes to several hours and have never succeeded in achieving a saveable result.

Cool, thanks! I'll see if I can find some place that offers stuff like that. EDIT: Orders placed! Thanks!

Ah, yes, I have 2 unused USB3 motherboard headers, so that would be the plan

I am currently trying to troubleshoot my motherboard's rear USB3.0 ports not functioning as anything other than USB2.0. USBTreeView is reporting Superspeed USB3.0 capable ports that don't correspond to any of my physical ports. Because I am using a HAF-X case, which predates internal headers, I can't just plug those in to try. Can anyone suggest any USB3.0 expansion solution? I am unfortunately out of PCI slots and hot swap bays, so ideally a 5.25" bay or conversion of the front USB3.0 ports would be ideal. I've looked around but I couldn't seem to find any way to directly go from male USB A (what I would need for front IO) to male internal connector, All the 5.25" bay solutions I've looked at seemed to either have additional unnecessary connectors (card readers, USB-C, front audio, etc). I would be looking in the EU so any suggestions even for where to look would be quite appreciated.

I had a look earlier and from what I could tell there did not seem to be. EDIT: Had another look, only USB specific options were as follows: Intel xHCI Mode - Smart Auto EHCI Legacy Support - Enabled xHCI Hand-off - Enabled EHCI Hand-off - Enabled

So as the title says, I have a set of motherboard USB ports that are not reporting as anything other than USB 2.0. I am running an Asus x99-a motherboard (on the 2017 BIOS), the manual for which confirms it should be USB 3.0 ports, but inserting a USB 3.0 device in any gives the message that it can perform faster if plugged into a USB 3.0 port. USBTreeViewer reports all ports that correspond to the physical ones as "H" and in SupportedUsbProtocols Usb300 as 0 (no). I've tried uninstalling drivers and reinstalling them with no change. I've tried the drivers from the manufacturer's site (only ASMedia ones present) and used windows auto search with no difference. I've included a snip of what USBTreeViewer shows and a list of which ports correspond to physical ones. Port nr reported intended Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.0 (Microsoft) Front 7 USB 2.0 USB 2.0 8 USB 2.0 USB 2.0 Rear 14 USB 2.0 USB 2.0 13 USB 2.0 USB 2.0 6 USB 2.0 USB 2.0 5 USB 2.0 USB 2.0 9 USB 2.0 USB 3.0 Port 10 Generic USB 2.1 Hub 4 USB 2.0 USB 3.0 3 USB 2.0 USB 3.0 2 USB 2.0 USB 3.0 ASMedia USB3.0 eXtensible Host Controller 4 USB 2.0 USB 3.0 3 USB 2.0 USB 3.0

I found out the new cable is limited to 60 Hz, so I've gone back to the original setup, as frustrating as some of the issues might be.

I have a pair of LG MP59G displays and initially hooked them up to my GTX 970, one HDMI to HDMI and one DP to DP. The resulting image on both monitors was a bit dark for my tastes, nothing a bit of messing around in the NVIDIA control panel couldn't fix. Over time I became increasingly frustrated with some of the DP behaviour (constantly moving my windows any time I turned off my monitor). I just bought a direct DP to HDMI cable so now both monitors have HDMI input, while still using HDMI and DP output on my GTX 970. To my surprise, the image over the new cable was brighter by default, actually revealing more detail on dark sections (see attached terrible quality comparison picture). The new cable also fixes an issue where solid colours were showing faint but noticeable grid lines on bright solid colours (best noticeable on blue yellow or red), which I initially assumed was just a quality of the monitor (have been unable to capture the issue objectively). So can the cables really impact the image that much? Any suggestions for ensuring consistent image quality on otherwise identical monitors (really the primary reason for buying in pairs)?