USB 2.0 ports now running 1.1

[alwyzstyln]

I have an Asus CG5270. I have had two external hard drives connected via USB. They have been connected to the same ports for over a year now. Yesterday, they started going off and on a few times on there own. When I took the USB out of the back of the computer and put it back in I got the message pop up "this device could perform faster". it does this with every USB port on my computer and with both external hard drives. Also when i restart windows it wont boot with the hard drives attatched. Here is what I have tried to do to fix it.

I made sure my setting in the BIOS were set that USB 2.0 was enabled and set to Hi-speed.
I went to device manager and made sure it said USB Enhanced. Which it does twice.
I then uninstalled the Everything Under USB in the device manager and restarted and let windows reload the drivers, which it did.
I also made sure the hard drives worked as USB 2.0 on a different computer which they do.
The then did a clean reinstall of Windows 7.
None of these solved this problem. I still get the message "this device could perform faster". I tried to transfer a file and it is really slow, so it is showing up as USB 1.1.

Any idea what could be going on? Thanks

 

[Lemur]

Two thoughts...

You can have a 2.0 port, but a 1.1 device attached to it. It will default to the slower device.

Also, check your bios for the latest version.

 

[alwyzstyln]

these external hard drives have been connected to same USB ports for over a year and worked fine. Just recently the same devices connecting to the same ports have began to connect with the USB 1.1. I also checked the BIOS already