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    Posted: 26 Mar 2021 at 6:41am
Only one of my USB-C ports will recognize an external Pioneer Bluray player£ The one on the right furthest away from power button is fine. Obviously the one on the left closest to power button doesn't. Has power, the drive will take a disk, etc. But it isn't recognized as a device in Windows£

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The port works by the way. If I plug in a USB-C external hard drive into the port that doesn't recognize the external Pioneer bluray device it is instantly recognized.
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If I use the USB 3 port next to the USB-C port that does not allow Windows to recognize the drive, Windows recognizes the drive. Are those 2 ports sharing some kind of hub like thing£
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I may have addressed it. Problem is I did a couple of things so......which fixed it£
USB Config in bios. The only settings are in which state do you want power to still pass to the USB ports, S0, S3, etc. Shouldn't impact power to the USB ports when the thing is ON. Changed it to Default which is not ALL ports.   Would think ALL ports would mean all of them get power and I'm seeing one of them not. Set it to Default not because it made sense. Did because ALL ports didn't seem to work. I left USB Legacy support in place.
In Device Manager unchecked the option for both instances of the AMD USB controller "Allow computer to turn off power...."
In Power Options/Profile went to the Advanced Settings and disabled the USB Suspend Settings.
Booted.
Plugged in external bluray into the port that was not installing the drive and it popped right up. Plugged it in the previously working port, popped right up, plugged it in the USB3 port using a USB3 to USB-C cable and boom, popped right up.
Suppose I could change Default back to ALL ports and see what happens.
ALL works fine. Which makes sense. That BIOS setting is for when it would allow charging to pass through to USB devices.
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Hello jsmiddleton4,
Thanks for sharing this info.
It can also help other customers.
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Hi Muitro,
people often take USB ports as defective, when a device doesn't work.
But these Intel Nuc like mini PC's don't have a chipset, like regular boards.
And, very important, every USB device uses a convertor chip, which will turn a USB signal into SATA. IDE, LAN, Wifi, storage etc.
UEFI will see this convertor, and the hardware behind it should report to UEFI, what kind of hardware, en which resources, if this information is not correct, UEFI cannot properlu handle this hardware, or it works, because of the OS integrated drivers, and can suddenly stop working all together.
Another culprit, is often the use of Wireless keyboard and mice.
These devices, often use a small USB dongle, and the actual transceiver chip in this dongle is literally inside the USB port, and works on 2.4GHz, which is exactly the same frequency, that USB3 uses to communicate.
As a result of this, these dongles, can disturb ALL USB communication.
This is a known issue with wireless devices, it is NOT a motherboard issue, every brand of motherboard, faces these issues, and it doesn't matetr if it's Intel or AMD.
The best test is to use default BIOS settings, and insert a USB stick, then start and press f11, to get into the boot menu, the USB stick should appear in the list.
Then repeat the procedure on the other ports.
The best way is to use for instance a USB stick with Windows 10 or 11 for this purpose.
And as You said, try another USB cable, and go for a better quality.
Some shops state the transfer rate as 5Gb/s or 10Gb/s, for USB3 C cables, On the 5Gb/s cable my phone takes 5 hours to fully charge, on the 10Gb/s, it takes 2 hours, so there is a huge difference in cables
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