"USB Device Not Recognized" Please Help

[Tohrchur]

I have the notification "USB Device Not Recognized" and I have tried just about everything except reinstalling my OS.

I have uninstalled the driver of the device, disabled then re-enabled the device.  I have updated my BIOS, updated my USB software many times (from the motherboard website).  

Installed from the motherboard driver disc.  

The simplest thing was I removed each usb-connected device one by one to see if the notification changes, and it doesnt.  I have no clue what else to do, any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Specs:
ASUS Sabertooth Z77

i5-3570K

8 GB Kingston RAM

Kingston 240GB SSD

WD Black 2TB HDD

MSI 560Ti

 

 

[Darell3]

Try the USB ports behind the motherboard.

[Tohrchur]

Try the USB ports behind the motherboard.

Thats the problem, those are the ones 'malfunctioning' 

[Leonard]

Try this. Take a sheet of bounty and fold it in four, then apply some isopropyl alcohol on it, not to much though, then wipe the flash drive's USB connector with the bounty, then let the isopropyl alcohol on the flash drive's USB connector dry off naturally. When it is dried plug it in your USB port and see if it will be recognized. IF this works then it is just the flash drive USB connector being oxidized, if not then you motherboard has the problem. If it is the motherboard then do a fresh in stall, it could be your registry being corrupt and fixing that is best left up to the PROs. ;)

[Tohrchur]

Try this. Take a sheet of bounty and fold it in four, then apply some isopropyl alcohol on it, not to much though, then wipe the flash drive's USB connector with the bounty, then let the isopropyl alcohol on the flash drive's USB connector dry off naturally. When it is dried plug it in your USB port and see if it will be recognized. IF this works then it is just the flash drive USB connector being oxidized, if not then you motherboard has the problem. If it is the motherboard then do a fresh in stall, it could be your registry being corrupt and fixing that is best left up to the PROs. ;)

I will try the alcohol tomorrow. I did end up doing a fresh install of windows 7.  I don't think its my motherboard but I have no clue what it is.  All my peripherals work perfectly.

[Emkryan]

1. Open command prompt

2. Diskpart

3. List disk

4. select disk #(what ever your usb drive is)

5. Clean disk

 

using this method I have NEVER needed to throw away a usb disk unless it was physically broken.

[mgsstar]

Do you have your USB drivers installed? If not, I would try it to see if it fixes the problem.

[Tohrchur]

Do you have your USB drivers installed? If not, I would try it to see if it fixes the problem.

That was one of the first things i did lol

[Tohrchur]

1. Open command prompt

2. Diskpart

3. List disk

4. select disk #(what ever your usb drive is)

5. Clean disk

 

using this method I have NEVER needed to throw away a usb disk unless it was physically broken.

I tried to do this but the disk's listed were just my SSD and HDD, no usb

[MrPete1985]

Is the USB device working in another PC?  I had an issue with my keyboard a few weeks ago getting the same error, I ran sysprep on my system and it fixed the issue

[Tohrchur]

Is the USB device working in another PC?  I had an issue with my keyboard a few weeks ago getting the same error, I ran sysprep on my system and it fixed the issue

Its not a specific device. There is just an error and notification showing up saying a device is not recognized. but all my peripherals, drives, etc work fine

[Emkryan]

I tried to do this but the disk's listed were just my SSD and HDD, no usb

can you see it in disk manager?