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Update by fucking idiot 06/22/2015, 11:31pm PDT
fucking idiot wrote:

My laptop's USB ports have recently stopped working periodically. When it happens, they're completely dead on boot up. No mouse, no charger, nothing. The only thing I notice amiss was in device manager where, under the list of USB controllers, "Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host controller" had the dreaded yellow triangle exclamation icon.

I tried uninstalling it and scanning for new hardware. It just came back with the error icon.

I tried disabling USB selective suspend under power settings.

I tried updating the controller driver.

The one thing that eventually worked was uninstalling the host controller, shutting down, unplugging the AC adaptor, then booting up from the battery. Things would work normally until the problem randomly cropped up on a future boot up. The solution also works randomly. Up until now where it's just refusing to work.

Is it just the hardware dying? Laptop is about 3 years old.


It just seems to randomly reinstall successfully with each uninstall (Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host controller)+bootup, usually taking around a dozen before it sticks.

The most promising solution I've seen is updating my motherboard's firmware, but since I'm an idiot I'm not finding anything on the manufacturer website (Sony VAIO, model VPCF236fm, Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM, BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. R2150V3).

The other solution has been this, but again because I am an idiot I have no clue what an "INF only" or "no monitor switch" is and a google search didn't enlighten me.
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Initializing usb drive? by fucking idiot 03/28/2015, 2:00am PDT NEW
    Probably a disk recovery place, but even that's a hail mary. NT by Don't keep important docs on flashd 03/28/2015, 4:47am PDT NEW
    Try a different usb port? A different computer? NT by Eurotrash 03/29/2015, 12:34am PDT NEW
    If it showed up with no partition table, then you initialized it, its probably NT by toast already 03/29/2015, 12:58am PDT NEW
    And now my USB ports are fucked by fucking idiot 06/07/2015, 8:16am PDT NEW
        All of the Windows laptops I've owned died around 2.5-3 years in. by Fullofkittens 06/07/2015, 9:30am PDT NEW
            Late 2011 model still working like new by Entropy Stew 06/07/2015, 12:03pm PDT NEW
        Have you opened it up? by Worm 06/07/2015, 10:24am PDT NEW
        USB ports are Satan by Entropy Stew 06/07/2015, 11:50am PDT NEW
        My Dell 3 year laptop warranty more than paid for itself. NT by MM 06/07/2015, 11:59am PDT NEW
        Update by fucking idiot 06/22/2015, 11:31pm PDT NEW
            U are not an idiot because you don't know, u are an idiot because u have low IQ. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 06/23/2015, 3:10am PDT NEW
            Replacing USB Adapters by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/23/2015, 7:54am PDT NEW
            solved? by fucking idiot 06/30/2015, 4:56pm PDT NEW
    Try going into recovery mode NT by Guy That Doesnt Know About Timestam 07/01/2015, 10:22am PDT NEW
 
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