I have installed the drivers from the mobo CD. I often find myself having to turn off the power on the back, unplug the power cable, and then replug/turn on the computer to get them to work again. And then repeat this process. It's annoying.

This is a very recently received RMA replacement board. My earlier board had the same problem.

I have enough PSU power that this shouldn't be a power-supply related issue.

Any thoughts?

Check your power settings:
Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options

Whichever one you use, go to change plan settings
Change advanced power settings
-find USB settings
-disable USB selectve suspend


Was it on or disabled already?

While you're there, do the same thing for PCI-E link state mgmt.


If the USB setting was already off, then you may have a problem. Go online and get the most up to date drivers.
If it was on, try it for a while. Those two settings just don't work well IMO and sometimes they don't "wake up" right.

Thanks. Just made those two changes. We'll see.

Pepper, is it the front or rear ports? Because my front ports are out. Seeing as we have the same case, I'm wondering if that's the issue.