So, the other day I came home to my mouse and keyboard (Microsoft wireless combo) not responding. Thinking that my computer froze, I was about to restart it. First I checked the batteries. Replaced them with brand new batteries. That wasn’t the problem. Then I saw the back ground change, and the task manager was still running.<\/p>\n
I did some checking and the front USB ports work fine. I restarted the computer, and the rears worked fine after the restart. Then they stopped again. I did some research and a lot of forums were saying to uncheck the “Allow this device to turn off to save power” which at that point I did.<\/p>\n
The USB ports have been working fine for days and then all of a sudden, I heard the disconnect sound twice. I tried the keyboard and mouse and they didn’t respond. I hooked them up to the front ports and they are working fine (I’m able to write this). I’ve tried to refresh the ports, I checked to see if there are any updated drivers. I have the most recent drivers.<\/p>\n
Anything connected to the rear ports won’t work. No power to any of them, and if I plug in a flash drive or something, nothing happens. I’m sure when I restart the computer, they’ll work again. I don’t know for how long though.
\nThe funny thing is that I have nothing plugged directly into the rear ports except the mouse and keyboard. There is a passive hub (which I use for flash drives), with nothing connected at the time, a cable for my Zune dock, which was not docked at time, and another cable that isn’t connected to anything. I use that one for powered external hard drives.<\/p>\n
This computer has been running pretty well. This problem was all of a sudden.<\/p>\n
Oh, and nothing new installed lately.<\/p>\n
I’m at a loss.<\/p>\n
Old stuff that still works, somewhat….<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":77},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-9308","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/9308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}