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  1. Miltoid19

    [SOLVED] USB plug In and plug out sound repeating

    Hello there, I have started getting some USB disconnect and reconnect sounds out of nowhere and I don't seem to be able to find the source. I have downloaded USBLogView and it shows me well this The amount of times this is happening to me seems random and it tends to happen more often whenever...
  2. DarkLibra

    Question Unable to format USB flash drive

    I'm currently having a problem regarding formatting my flash drive. It shows this error. "DiskPart has encountered an error: A device which does not exist was specified. See the System Event Log for more information." after using CMD to clean it. This flash drive was used previously with a...
  3. TheFlash1300

    Question What causes very slow copy/paste transfer?

    Hello. In the past (around 10 months ago) my laptop had a very good copy/paste transfer speed, it was around 150-200MB/s. Now, the speed is mostly around 10-20KB/s, rarely jumps to around 8-10MB/s for a short period of time, several seconds, and then gets back to 10-20KB/s. The health of my SSD...
  4. LORYT699

    [SOLVED] 9-pin usb to 3-pin argb ?

    Hi, I have an atc800 from gigabyte, the mobo is an msiz390 tomahawk and the problem is about the light system of the cooler. I don t know why but gigabyte had thinked that put an 9pin for the rgb conrol was a good thing, now I m searching how to put that 9 pin(usb) to a 3 pin for argb. I have an...
  5. D

    Question USB Problem

    Hello! I've been experiencing an obnoxious issue for a while now. For some reason every 1-5 minutes I hear the USB disconnect sound. I checked system sounds to make sure that that noise wasn't caused by some regular occurrence task and it's exclusive to disconnecting USBs. I made sure that...
  6. T

    Question Unable to boot UEFI from SATA or USB after connecting Surface Hub SSD ?

    Hi all, I was attempting to use the Surface Hub Recovery Tool to reimage the drive of our office's interactive whiteboard. Long story short: the OS began boot looping following the latest bout of updates. When I connected the drive via a USB dock, the drive showed up in Device Manager as a...
  7. N

    Question Computer won't start without removing usb that comes from monitor

    I just got an upgrade on my video card and my PSU, Strix RTX 3070ti and Super Flower LEADEX III 850W, from previously Zotac GTX 1070ti and Corsair RM650x. Before the upgrade I didn't need to remove the USB that comes from the monitor to turn the PC on, now if I let the USB be plugged in, my PC...
  8. Z

    Question USB ports dying one by one ?

    Hello! My computer was working greatly about 6 months ago but then I bought a Dual Sense controller and started using it with a USB cable, worked nicely for some weeks but for some reason none of the USB was recognizing the controller anymore, I gave up and started using a Bluetooth dongle...
  9. J

    Question USB3 Data transfer throttling to 40mbps?!

    Hey everyone, Please help! This issue only seems to affect USBA-C cables. Its the change from A-C or C-A which is the issue. So this is on multiple windows 10 machines (a desktop and laptop), same issue. I have tried transferring from/to SSD drives, CFExpress cards, internal Nvme drives...
  10. L

    [SOLVED] Touched wrong end of usbc into usb socket, pc wont turn on.

    My dumb butt wasn't looking and the other end of the usbc plug touched the metal part of my usb port on my pc. It turned off instantly. I naturally tried unplugging and plugging back in. Didn't work; fans came on for less than a second and didnt spin and stopped. I tried taking out the mobo...
  11. A

    Question M.2 card as USB Drive displays "No Disk"

    I am trying to use an M.2 card as an external USB drive. It is in a Kingshare SSD enclosure, C3 SATA to USB. The M.2 card is a 2280 format. I was (several years ago) using this on a Maximus VIII Ranger MoBo as the Win10 system drive. It is a 128G card, and it was replaced with with a 500G M.2...
  12. TheFlash1300

    [SOLVED] SanDisk Cruzer Force - write/erase cycles

    Hello. Recently, i bought a USB drive, SanDisk Cruzer Force, with a storage amount of 64 gigabytes. Since USB drives don't support S.M.A.R.T, i can't see how many write/erase cycles my USB has. So, can someone, who is familiar with USBs and the technology SanDisk uses in their USBs, tell me how...
  13. operationc4

    Question Modifying USB port to support fast charging

    So I haven't had much luck researching this since my searches get diluted with non-technical sources. I have a USB port in my car that connects to the stereo so that my phone can connect via Android Auto. The problem is that the charging speed from that port is quite lacking to the point where...
  14. B

    [SOLVED] Not enough USB 2.0 headers?

    I’m still really new to building my own PC. I recently got a Kraken x63 for my PC and as I was installing it I need to plug a cord into a USB 2.0 slot, but I “think” I only have 2 which are occupied by my Lian Li Uni fan SL120 fans and my WiFi card. Could I plug these in somewhere else or is...
  15. K

    [SOLVED] System tray area flickering and other related issues

    PC was working just fine but I took it outside to clean the dust a little with a can of compressed air. Nothing extreme at all. After plugging everything back and turning the computer back on, I got a BSOD (usbaudio.sys, minidump). Now, an USB icon (safe removal prompt) is constantly...
  16. B

    [SOLVED] USB port only works at an angle?

    The USB ports on my laptop have been acting weird the past few months - they only connect when I tilt the USB cord horizontally away from me. Same issue with both ports. I thoroughly cleaned the ports and also used a needle to painstakingly lift each pin into the optimal position... no change...
  17. Knallow

    [SOLVED] Can't get WD external hard drive to open - driver error on asus rog strix g17 windows 10

    Hello people, I have a problem with my USB driver when I try to connect my WD external hard drive into my laptop. Hope someone can help me figure out what’s wrong. My laptop is an asus rog strix g17, and its specs: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6 Graphics AMD Ryzen 9-5900HX Processor 3.3GHz...
  18. Nikita123123

    [SOLVED] Flash Drives

    Hi guys, please tell me which flash drive to choose for everyday use?
  19. Jaymz2000

    Question Is it possible to create a bootable USB with a FULL install of Linux

    I'm trying something new, I'm familiar with Linux (ish) I'm not one of the people who's gonna preach about switching to Linux, to be honest I really don't care lol, I just wanna try something new until Win11 is a little more improved. Anyways... I'm trying to create a bootable USB, NOT a live...
  20. Ensign Scrulu

    [SOLVED] USB ports stopped functioning upon upgrade from Windows 7 → 10

    Hi all, when I upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 suddenly the two lower of the four USB ports on the back of my Dell Optiplex 3040 stopped functioning. They worked fine for several years until the upgrade (there were external HDD's connected to them so I knew right away). Sure, there is the...
  21. J

    Question I can't low-level format a USB drive ?

    I have a Seagate Backup Plus portable drive with 1T capacity. After not using it for close to a year, I plugged it in to a USB port. Windows 10 said it couldn't recognize the drive. So, I downloaded Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool (version 4.40) and did a full format. It encountered a problem...
  22. P

    Question Issues with peripherals on USB slots

    Hello, I own a Fujitsu AH532 laptop (i5). I've had it for many years and it hasn't caused any problems until recently. Since the past month, the USB ports are misbehaving. I started noticing this when I wanted to transfer some files from my phone to the hard drive. The PC was having difficulty...
  23. laism

    [SOLVED] Redragon Kumara k552 suddenly stopped working

    I was using the keyboard and suddenly the keyboard stopped working, I tried reconnecting by unplugging it, the keyboard lit up for a while but as I tried typing it only wrote NNNNNNNNNNN, so I disconnect and reconnected again but this it is not coming anymore, device manager says, " Device...
  24. P

    Question Custom High Spec PC - Graphics issues. (Help)

    Hi all, I have been using my desktop PC (Custom Built) for a couple of years now, the issue i am getting is a constant flashing on my desktop icons, also the sound of a USB device being added / removed constantly and the other day an error on booting up saying overclosking failed - I reset the...
  25. N

    [SOLVED] Windows 10 USB won’t load when ssd plugged in.

    Long story short, I was doing very little on my pc and it became sluggish. Turned it off and turned it back on and wasn’t able to boot windows. I plugged in my usb that I had used to install windows onto my computer with to try and repair it. None of the repair options worked and they also took...