Forum Overview :: American McGee's Honda Civic :: And now my USB ports are fucked

[quote name="fucking idiot"]My laptop's USB ports have recently stopped working periodically. When it happens, they're completely dead on boot up. No mouse, no charger, nothing. The only thing I notice amiss was in device manager where, under the list of USB controllers, "Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host controller" had the dreaded yellow triangle exclamation icon. I tried uninstalling it and scanning for new hardware. It just came back with the error icon. I tried disabling USB selective suspend under power settings. I tried updating the controller driver. The one thing that eventually worked was uninstalling the host controller, shutting down, unplugging the AC adaptor, then booting up from the battery. Things would work normally until the problem randomly cropped up on a future boot up. The solution also works randomly. Up until now where it's just refusing to work. Is it just the hardware dying? Laptop is about 3 years old.[/quote]