Buy Extra USB Port Board for Overseas?

[KHE920]

I live in Ecuador and my mom's coming to visit me in 2 weeks.

My laptop has been inconsistently recognizing USB peripherals such as mouse, keyboard, phone, and flash drive. They'll just stop working for a few min. then come back. Sometimes I have to wiggle the cords for 30 seconds.

I've tried a lot of the techniques on youtube to fix it such as going into device manager, disabling, re-enabling, re-install drivers, etc. etc. I tried so many I don't even remember many of them.

None of them really helped my case. I've tried 2 different mice and 2 diff. keyboards. Same thing.

Could this warrant replacing the USB port board?

Would it be a good idea to buy an extra port board, it's like $3-4, just in case they totally stop working?

Or I am totally looking at the wrong angles?

Shipping to Ecuador is expensive and there might be flat fee tariffs too. That is why I would prefer buying now and having my mom bring it.

 

[kanewolf]

Very few laptops have replaceable USB subsystems. Most of the time they are part of the motherboard. If your laptop is from a manufacturer that has a docking station as an option (HP, Dell, Lenovo...) you might be able to use a docking station to give you a new set of USB ports.