I tried updating every driver I could find, including the chipset and BIOS.
Hi. I already upgraded the BIOS and chipset drivers. I do see that if in device manager I show hidden devices, two of my Samsung phone USB drivers (to transfer from phone to PC/back etc) are greyed out, there's also two "unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed) listings, one USB Mass Storage greyed out and one XBox 360 Controller for Windows greyed out. I should mention that whether it's my phone or the XBox controller, though the front USB 3 that's "dead" typically doesn't do anything AT ALL once in a blue moon when I try it again it'll show a popup in windows as device last malfunctioned/unrecognized or something along those lines. I know that nothing was knocked loose inside, all is still hooked up properly, etc. It must not be a hardware issue but something software/driver etc related.
There were never any problems when it was Win 10. This actually is a fresh install. I meant upgrade as in a never version.
The Windows 11 was just a regular DVD from Microsoft.
He just bought it a couple weeks ago though.
Hi again. I feel like an idiot. I checked the mobo connector and it's clearly not in good condition. After trying my best to position it better than it was the front 3.2 is now working, albeit even slower than you'd expect from a 2.0. I also noticed the front 2.0 is split off of the 3.2 connector, which would explain why even the front 2.0 goes slower than the rear ports. There's nothing I can do short of getting a new mobo and that's just not feasible in my financial position. It all makes sense now, since the connector (not the cord, rather the port on the mobo) is so wonky it's not possible to secure the cable well. My only question is why the back ports are still slower than they should be. Or maybe I'm overestimating how fast 3.2 ports can go. Is it normal for a 3.2 to take an hour to transfer 100Gb? If so then there's not actually anything wrong.
I meant how the usb 3 connector to the mobo has a portion that connects to the 2.0 ... I'm out and about but I'll let you know what case I have when I'm back.As for the headers, they are usually just called USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 headers. So i take it you mean the USB 3.0 header, where the front USB 3.0 connector goes on:
USB ports on the case not working, or only working very slowly, can often be a problem with the pins on the USB header of the board. Those pins on the USB 3.0 header are extremely fragile and thin compared to the USB 2.0 headers, and the plug doesn't guide them very well. In my opinion, the USB 3.0 headers are a bad design. When you force the plug on there with the pins not perfectly lining up, you can easily bend a couple without noticing. Then when you unplug it to check, and try to bend them straight, they tend to break right off. See here for example, https://superuser.com/questions/166...-3-0-on-this-motherboard-if-it-has-broken-pin
This even happened to myself once, and i build PCs for people all the time. I saw that i bent one of the pins, tried to fix it, and it broke off immediately. Once this happens, then depending on which pin broke, you may not get a USB 3.0 connection anymore, it will be stuck at USB 2.0 speeds with are about 35 MB/s tops.
The actual write speed though depends only partly on the port's capabilities. Often times, the attached storage device is the limiting factor. So for example, when you put a mediocre USB stick on there with maybe 20 MB/s max write speed, it doesn't matter what the port can do. On your board, you only have 5 Gbit/s ports anyway, so the normal "USB 3.2 Gen 1" previously known as "USB 3.0" ones, with a theoretical maximum speed of around 500 MB/s, but usually below. If you were to max out the port's capabilities, say with a very fast external SSD that doesn't throttle after some time, then transferring 100 GB would take under five minutes. BTW, GB usually means GigaByte and Gb usually means Gigabit (i saw you writing Gb when you probably mean GB).
Split off? Are you sure? That makes no sense, you always have two USB 2.0 headers, even on a lower-end board model. These are your board's USB headers:
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What model is your case?
This is a mesh Cougar but it doesn't specify which exact model. I looked at several manuals for different ones and you're right, it shows the USB connector as one, unlike what's actually provided.
It's a Cougar MX330-X but the manual is as skimpy as possible; doesn't even show the USB cable.
The picture you provided is what I'm referring to. How the 3.0 connector's cable splits off, one part for the 3.0 and the other for the 2.0. My drive is SSD and I was trying to connect to my Galaxy S22 but it went at like 1.0 speed. So does any other device I try. I checked the pins and they're all intact.
Btw, I'm really concerned about something I just noticed... Win 11's system information reported my mobo as MAG B460M BAZOOKA, so I installed the latest BIOS for it. However, I just looked up the part in parenthesis "(MS-7C83)" and it's a different mobo with newer BIOS! Is it possible I upgraded the wrong BIOS?!
