USB 3.0 ports not working after upgrading power supply

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So, yeah. <.< This is a little embarrassing, but I was apparently mistaken about which of my back USB ports were 2.0 and which were 3.0. All the 3.0 ones seem to be working fine in Windows 7 (a couple of them required me to plug my phone in twice to get the option to switch to 3.0 on my phone, but I assume that's kind of normal). This kinda implies i just need to plug in my front panel USB's, right?

Heh, it is alright as long as they are working :)

USB 3.0 ports are blue in color. But yeah, if you want to use front panel, you just need to plug the cables to motherboard.

Plugging twice: It does happen sometimes (you get "this device can perform faster" warnings), I re-plug my USB 3 device if so.

Huh, well, I was hoping that would solve the problem, but it doesn't really appear so. :/ I get this error message on my phone whenever I try to establish a 3.0 connection that says "Notice: Unable to connect devices via USB 3.0." Most of the time, however, the 3.0 option isn't appearing and sometimes it's not even registering as a USB port (it just provides power to my phone without any connectivity options).

On one of the back ports, I got it kind of close to working, except every time I switch over to 3.0, it either disconnects itself (like no more USB connection) or it just displays the Windows Explorer window for a second (as if it recognizes the device and is about to bring up the folder hierarchy) and then closes the window automatically and disconnects itself. I've tried plugging it in over probably 30 times now and every time I just get one of these weird behaviors.

Ha, at least all of the ports can provide power now?

Alright, so Linux works but Windows has an issue with USB 3.0 now?

Hmm, I didn't test them in Linux. That would be a good idea, obviously. I'm afraid I have to go to work now, but I'll report back with the results of testing the ports in Linux.

No need to hurry, someone else will be here even if I am not.

Alrighty; well, I ran full tests of both front and back panels with both Linux and Windows 7. The first time I was testing in Linux, I assumed that if the 3.0 option showed up on my phone, then it would work. Upon further testing (e.g. actually clicking on the 3.0 option) in Linux, that is not the case. :/ Most of the time, it would do the same sorts of things I described in that last post. One of the ports sorta looked like it was working, but I got this error message on the monitor after selecting the 3.0 option: "Unable to mount Samsung Android Unable to open MTP device '[usb:004,010]'"

Before doing any of this testing, I went ahead and confirmed that I'm on rev. 1.0 of that board and downloaded and re-installed the proper driver, just to eliminate that as a potential issue. What would you recommend next?

Find a USB 3 flash drive and test with that too. A small one shouldn't cost much or borrow from a friend. By the way if you select USB 2 on a USB 3 port does the phone connect?

Alrighty; I'm afraid I'm the most tech-savvy of my friends, so I'll make a stop by Best Buy later today to pick one up. And as to whether the phone connects via 2.0 it's sometimes yes, sometimes no. There really seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. When it does connect via 2.0, it's pretty stable though (i.e. I can actually use the connection to transfer data and what not).