Several BSODs recent install of MS OneDrive; USB ext. HDs fail

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    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
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    Boozad said:
    Thanks for the input mate, very much appreciated. I had been reading into an issue with the BIOS last night but it wasn't very clear. Maybe that is a route to take if all else fails.

    So lite1, going with Slarty's advice is the way to go here. If you could post the screenshot of Speccy he's requested that would be great. I'm 99% certain your USB root hub should be using the Intel chipset driver, can you (after posting the screenshot) remove all USB devices and uninstall the USB 2.0 root hub. Reboot and allow Windows to install the relevant driver. Expand USB controllers again and let's see what's there.
    Gav I Might just chip in once more and say I find HW Info much better at getting very detailed specs of a system insomuch it will show much more than just what is it see my pics.
    HWiNFO, HWiNFO32/64 - Download < get the right version
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    W7 Pro x64 SP1 | W10 Pro IP x64 | W8.1 Pro x64 VM | Linux Mint VM
       #32

    ICit2lol said:
    Gav I Might just chip in once more
    Chip in a smuch as you see fit John, your input is greatly appreciated as usual mate.
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    Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
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       #33

    Issue resolved THANK YOU


    Missed many of the recent posts, but do have things resolved, thank you all very much. FYI:
    One of the last posts I saw from @Boozad I believe going back to restore point prior to the recent Renesas update. I had this restore point, but windows restore failed and showed an error 1st suspecting that antivirus was blocking access to a needed file. But even temporarily disabling antivirus (Bitdefender) it still failed showing an error 0x8007005. I did a bit of research on that and got really frustrated.

    I had done the Renesas update installing it via Revo Unistaller software which simply tracks what an installation is doing so that you can unistall in a more complete manner. So I uninstalled Renesas which had updated both the driver and the firmware. At this point the USB 2.0 ports would not work at all even for a mouse. They had just a driver from I believe 2006 from Miscrosoft. I believe someone has posted that they sometimes find it helpful to go back to the basic MS drivers, and then work your way forward ... essentially that is what I seemed to have done.

    So I next used the built in Lenovo Thinkpad tool to search for driver and other updates, but it did not suggest anything remotely related to USB. On the Lenovo Thinkpad forum I had seen a thread from I believe 2011 of someone who had done a clean re-install of Win 7 Pro 64 bit (my operationg sys) and had no activity from USB 2.0 ports. An old timer there pointed to the need to install the USB 3.0 files so this was my tip off that the original poster who had responded had been correct in pointing me to the USB 3.0 files as these also seem to control the USB 2.0

    Anyway since I am much more into software than hardware, I first tried to install the firmware update available from the Lenovo support area for my laptop model W510, but this failed. So I figured I needed to do the .exe related to the driver first. I did this and it created both the
    NEC Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller and the 3.0 Root Hub

    I did NOT update the firmware, so I am actually back a bit on the firmware side of things from the most recent. The driver is the most upto date one that Lenovo provides, however Renesas/NEC has a slightly more recent driver. Since everything is now (again) working, I am not going to mess with it.

    I hope this is clear, and of some use to you in understanding how things were finally resolved. I don't fully understand, but am glad that with the support of all of you I was able to get things functioning again. I have no idea what had triggered the recent problems. From the little that I understand it is very unlikely that it had anything to do with my recent installation of Microsoft OneDrive.

    Thank you all for persevering and offering your knowledge and advice; I learned alot, but hope that I never need to use it in the future.
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    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       #34

    Ah well good to see it's fixed eh? but all good experience though.
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    x64 (6.3.9600) Win8.1 Pro & soon dual boot x64 (6.1.7601) Win7_SP1 HomePrem
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    Glad it all worked out for you in the end.

    Thanks for marking your thread solved.

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       #36

    Glad you got there in the end. Sorry I couldn't help you resolve it sooner.
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  7. Posts : 28
    Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
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       #37

    Again, thank you all. I did download HWInfo for 64-bit and can see it'd be useful in providing more detailed info. The Western Digital USB 2.0 HD is shown below in case you are interested. This had always been recognized by my laptop; then had problem; and now is back to functioning.

    In contrast to using Device Manager and expanding the USB devices; HWInfo seems to make it quite clear that every USB device is subset under the NEC Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller whereas with Device Manager everything is shown at the same level of hierarchy. Since I have both a port replicator, and a separate USB 2.0 powered hub the HWInfo makes things clearer. But again I hope I don't need to delve into hardware stuff again for years!
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