Out of Pod Experience

About 3 days ago my computer suddenly turned off my USB ports, and despite my mouse light still being on the cursor wouldn't move and my keyboard lights were all off.

I proceeded to buy a new keyboard and mouse (needed new ones anyways). That didn't fix the problem, but I noticed only one usb port worked so I kept alternating between mouse and keyboard trying to find a fix for the ports.

I ended up giving up and I did a clean install, after that I was able to get one additional port to work so now I got 2 ports out of 6 available.

Here comes the fishy thing, both ports work fine with everything but eve, as soon as I log into eve the usb port for the keyboard starts making connect disconnect noises until the keyboard stops functioning.

If there is a A+ player and you read this, I need halp.

I think it could be my 600 wat power source starting to give up and runs out of voltage when it has to add more juice to my 4 gig video card.

Or a corrupt driver that its not getting fixed by the chipset update software.

thanks for the reply.

here is how my usb controller looks like controler looks

Oh may sound stupid but sometimes the drivers that come with windows work better then the ones from your hardware vendor. I had terrible trouble with some LAN drivers for a while, they were giving me terrible download speed. The drivers that I downloaded from the actual hardware vendor site was crap and the ones that came with windows worked flawlessly. I would think Intel would have decent drivers but you never know.

And I'm with Webvan on the power supply. Your whole system would shutdown, lockup etc if it was really a power problem.

Also if all else fails you can always get a PCIe USB card if you don't want to replace your motherboard.

I did the software updates, the system says that the devices are functioning properly, despite not even recognizing my connected devices.

Also the problem now is that it only gets all crazy when I load eve online, although it will run normally for a few minutes or longer if I don't type nothing and or avoid using the keyboard commands. once I press even 1 key the system starts making disconnect connect sounds and then the keyboard stops working although the mouse keeps working.

This might be a very very longshot, but I once had a similar issue with USB´s in my own rig and it ended up being a static /shortcircuit issue (humidity in Panama is usually close to 90% and lost some mobos during the rainy reason) and fixed it by first cleanly placing an anti-static barrier between the chassis and the Motherboard (by cutting up some old Motherboard plastic wrappers that are anti-static and removing the Mobo and screwing it back but using the foil in between the screw holes) and then proceeding to clean each port with a small vacuum cleaner after I thoroughly rubbed a regular white eraser inside them to clean any kind of debris/conductive grease , whatever.

As a side note, those white erasers are marvelous for gently cleaning any kind of connectors in your rig, also remember not to BLOW the debris, use quality compressed air or specialty vacuum cleaners.

No more USB problems for me, a long shot, I know.

I don´t know if anyone else asked this, but try removing the USB connectors that plug your chassis/case USB ports to your mobo and only use the ones that come with the MoBo. Your chassis ones might be damaged physically/dirty.

If regular moBo ones at the back work no problem you can separate the issue and then can consider having a bad USB controller.

Why, did you find it was broken? Replacement is last option, until all else fails. If you booted off linux, and it didn't find all your usb ports, then time to take a physical look at the connections etc. Sometimes it can be cables, such as my college instructor did to me on finals lol. But you want to know if it's physical or software problems, as software problems could-could effect a replacement.