Ph.D wrote:I have seen or heard no correlation between the CPU cooler, its fans or the USB connector. I'm not the biggest fan of the Kühler software but I've used it for many years now without a whole lot of issues. Disconnecting it from the PC and then running it would mean running the PC without any sort of CPU cooling so I am hesitant to do that.
The only real difference I've noticed is that since doing the C-drive wipe (which is after the problem started occurring of course) and reinstalling most of the drivers the cooling fan does not spin up to maxium speed during the boot-up process anymore. Never actually knew why that happened in the first place but I did notice when it stopped doing that.
As you can read above I would love to actually do a full wipe and get the
real most recent drivers for everything but I am not sure how to get my hands on those. In terms of drivers listed on the
ASUS website I have the most recent BIOS, I do not have he most recent chipset drivers (as explained earlier in the thread) and I have an even more recent version of the Asmedia USB3.0 Controller Driver than the one listed on that page. Before and at the time when the USB error started appearing I had all the latest drivers for everything except the aforementioned chipset drivers of which I had the second to most recent drivers. Downloading the even newer Asmedia drivers was one of my attempts to fixing the problem. Then again the USB ports in question aren't USB3 ports anyway so it was probably for naught.
The OS I am running is the same OS that I have been running since I built this PC in 2011. Windows 7 Ultimate. The latest service pack for that isn't exactly recent either.
Would the CPU cooler pump actually stop if you only disconnected its USB cable? I shouldn't think so, it has a separate (standard) 3-pin power cable to the motherboard, and the fans are powered from the pump, if I'm reading the
manual correctly.
For the drivers, sorry I'd missed where you earlier wrote
Ph.D wrote:I know the general advice for this kind of thing is to just get the ones on the manufacturer's support site but I'd love to be able to get the actual most recent/updated drivers I can get and I don't really know how or where to get them.
but you can go to
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8Z68 ... _Download/ and choose your OS from the pull-down menu. You have Windows 7, if it's 64b you will see available the below, if it's not it'll be similar.
You should grab the ones listed below (assuming 64b Windows 7, or if not that the 32b revisions are similar) and install them one after another, rebooting when an installer tells you to. As it isn't the one below, from that site, uninstall the Asmedia USB3.0 Controller Driver first.
Intel Chipset Driver V9.3.0.1019
Intel Management Engine Interface V8.0.0.1262
Realtek Audio Driver V6.0.1.6251
Intel Graphics Accelerator Driver V8.15.10.2598
Intel LAN Driver V17.3.0.0
Asmedia USB3.0 Controller Driver V1.14.1.0
Intel AHCI/RAID Driver and Rapid Storage Technology driver software V10.6.2.1001
JMicron JMB36X Controller Driver V1.17.58.2
Marvell SATA 6G AHCI Driver V1.0.0.1045
ASUS Bluetooth Driver V8.0.1.314
Then you could install, from the same page, the latest version of the motherboard suite,
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/u ... 1480422707 and the latest ASUS EZ Update V2.00.08 after, which will keep you up to date in future.
I'd probably not install the USB 3.0 Boost Full Package Version V1.00.05, personally.