jonnex

Hi,

I've got the above mobo, and untill now I've had no real problems with it. Just over a year it's been great.

Just in the last week or so, it's started popping up with this error, in both my Vista and XP installation:

"One of the USB devices attahced to this computer has malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it."

It then says 'The location of the device is shown in bold type":
- USB Root Hub (2 ports)
- Unknown Device
- Unused Port

So, I naturally started to hunt for the offending USB device. This went to it's natural extreme, and I unplugged every USB device currently plugged in. The error still kept popping up. It pops up pretty randomly, sometimes it'll come 5 times in a minute, sometimes it'll be a few hours, and anything inbetween. It's totally sporadic, it seems to me.

I've been in device manager, and tried to uninstall the offending 'unknown device', but windows just then finds it again, and installs it. Problem repeats. I think this *may* have started when I tried to use an old webcam on my Vista partition, which I had managed to get working on XP. But then it started happening on XP, so I dont know if the 2 are related.

So that's 1 problem.

Since that started, i've noticed that when I boot up it takes AGES to get past the initial screens, like when it's showing the big ASUS picture. It took over 2 minutes to get into windows this time.

Its slow the whole time getting in, like on the screen where I pick the OS to launch, it has a count down timer for 29 seconds. But it wasn't taking a second to count down 1 second, more like 5 or 10 per second it should have counted down.

that's all then, sorry it's such a long post, but if anyone has any ideas i'd really love to hear them, i'm really stuck with this..

Thanks for reading,
Jo