Strange USB Problems

[lord_spaceman]

It seems like I'm having a strange problem with my USB slots. When ever I plug a USB device into my USB slot - my PC slows down considerably, but not instantly, only upon the next reboot. I then need to reboot it again to get the speed back. It has only started doing this recently and it's very strange - there are no conflicts in the device manager and trying different USB ports make no difference.

My PC is in need for a new format, perhaps that should solve my problem.

 

[Andrewc]

You could try updating your Bios.

 

[lord_spaceman]

You could try updating your Bios.

It has been updated and is currently up to date. All drivers on my PC are up to date. This problem started happening out of the blue.

 

[Andrewc]

ok, what motherboard do you have and hav you installed any usb devices recently?

 

[LabAnimal]

re-install the usb drivers, and don't rely on your System Device Manager applet to find conflicts, use System Info, look up conflics - it should give you a rough map of what ports are being shared. also - in your bios, you should have a "Reset Configuration Data", set it to yes, and let the system re-sort its IRQ's. - try that.