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USB 3.0 no longer works
I bought an HP Pavilion 2 years ago. AMD A-10 proc with 8gig mem. Worked fine for 6 months. HDMI quit working. Started using VGA. Bought Seagate USB 3.0 2 TByte for backup. Worked fine. 18 months later MSI MS-7778 motherboard started giving me trouble on start up. I'd push the power button and the computer would lock up before getting to the point where I could enter 'setup'. I'd restart a few times and it would work okay from there. The problem kept getting worse over time until I would have to try to restart 50 to 100 times. It finally got to the point where it wouldn't boot up at all, no matter how many times I tried. I bought a new ASUS mother board and that problem was solved. But, the USB 3.0 ports would not work. Took the board back and bought the upgraded ASUS A88XM-A mother board. Still, I can't get the rear panel USB 3.0 ports to work as USB 3.0. They only work as 2.0. The front panel USB 3.0 ports don't work at all. I have downloaded the latest drivers from ASUS and re-installed them several times. I've also tried an USB 3.0 thumb drive in all ports. It isn't recognized by any of the ports. As a side note, the front panel card reader no longer works either.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Rick