The VCR King
Well-Known Member
It wasn't just the card reader y'all...
My Reddit posts keep getting buried and forgotten about so I am just going to copy and paste my most recent one below. Any help is appreciated, thank you!
I'm about to throw this ******* computer out of my window if I cannot find a solution for this.
So I have a new external hard drive, flash drive, and card reader for school things. All of them are USB 3.0.
When I plug any of them into any port on my PC it goes "dundundun" and says the device driver software is not found or cannot be found.
I tried disabling and reenabling the devices in hardware manager but it didn't work.
Looking further my windows update has been turned off since 2015 (idek why) but I turned it back on and let it download the ~2GB of updates I had and install them all but it still isn't working.
On the other hand, my older usb 3 devices such as my backup drive and other flash drive, and all usb 2 devices such as my keyboard dongle or phone dock all work fine. It's just if I try to plug in any USB 3 device that hasn't been used with my computer before that this happens. I even tried my friends flash drive and it happened with that too.
Also before anyone says it, a clean reinstall of Windows is not an option for me. My family also uses this PC and between all of our data and programs it'll take a week to restore the PC if I wipe it and redo it.
My Reddit posts keep getting buried and forgotten about so I am just going to copy and paste my most recent one below. Any help is appreciated, thank you!
I'm about to throw this ******* computer out of my window if I cannot find a solution for this.
So I have a new external hard drive, flash drive, and card reader for school things. All of them are USB 3.0.
When I plug any of them into any port on my PC it goes "dundundun" and says the device driver software is not found or cannot be found.
I tried disabling and reenabling the devices in hardware manager but it didn't work.
Looking further my windows update has been turned off since 2015 (idek why) but I turned it back on and let it download the ~2GB of updates I had and install them all but it still isn't working.
On the other hand, my older usb 3 devices such as my backup drive and other flash drive, and all usb 2 devices such as my keyboard dongle or phone dock all work fine. It's just if I try to plug in any USB 3 device that hasn't been used with my computer before that this happens. I even tried my friends flash drive and it happened with that too.
Also before anyone says it, a clean reinstall of Windows is not an option for me. My family also uses this PC and between all of our data and programs it'll take a week to restore the PC if I wipe it and redo it.