Asus x55a USB drivers? (not 3.0)

charles6686

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I just installed a fresh legit copy of windows 7 home premium to an Asus x55a laptop..

Installation was clean, but after updating windows I noticed the usb controller wasn't working. It says it can't find any drivers in device manager, and of course theres the little yellow exclamation.

Nothing works... tried flash drives, external hard drives, external sound card... none of them light up, the computer doesn't respond in any way.

I've repeatedly tried asus's website but to no avail.

I've tried the intel INF driver here: http://www.service.asus.com/#!downloads/c1wax

When that failed, I tried to look up drivers for the actual motherboard itself which directed me back to the same link above 🙁 I get the feeling this is a really basic fix but I just can't find it... any ideas?




 
Well it turns out I had to download the drivers for the USB3.0 ports to get the regular USB's to fire up... I had never intended to use the 3.0 ports and had initially skipped over their drivers.

Oh well, live and learn.