Intermittent USB failure on Windows 10?

[Jim99]

Since I upgraded to Windows 10, I've been having intermittent failures of the USB Host Controllers on my Maximus IV Gene-Z.

Sometimes that means rebooting 4-5 times (because I have no USB devices working and thus can't log in), other times it means I get into Windows but have to manually disable and then re-enable one of the Host Controllers which has failed in Device Manager.

As far as I can tell, there's no way of further updating the chipset drivers. I guess the motherboard could be going a bit haywire, but seems a coincidence that it only started when I installed Windows 10. Or, perhaps it's the result of upgrading rather than a fresh install.

Any ideas?

 

[marc2003]

You can install chipset drives on windows 10 but they typically don't do anything other than identify devices. There are no USB drivers for Intel ports but you might find updated ones for the Asmedia USB3 ports??

I'd never trust a windows upgrade myself and always prefer a clean install. If you had a spare hard drive kicking about, it might be worth installing Windows 10 on it (without a product key because you won't want to activate it). If that still plays up, try windows 7 just to make sure that still works.