Trying to breathe some extra life into my computer now that we’re past the windows 10 EoL and I’m trying to install Mint
So far everything seems to be working fine except that some of my USB ports don’t seem to be working.
They work in Windows, they work in the BIOS but once I’m up and running in with some of them just stop.
My motherboard is a gigabyte ga-990fxa-u3 (Rev 4.0) running the latest bios version
It has some USB 3.0 ports, and some 2.0, I’m not home right now to double check but I believe it’s the 2. ports that aren’t working.
I played around with Linux a little bit well over a decade ago but I’m essentially a total Linux noob
Anyone got any thoughts about what’s going on with these ports or how to fix it?
Open your machine and look at these ports.
Are they directly connected to the motherboard, or on the front of a case extended by a cable?
They’re directly on the motherboard
The ones on the front of the case are working, and I’m 99% sure they’re connected to a 3.0 header
I’m not currently home so not able to confirm that right now
Your North and South (if you have one )bridge chip?
From the gigabyte website, so hopefully this is the info you’re looking for
North Bridge: AMD 990FX South Bridge: AMD SB950
Try going into your BIOS settings and disabling IOMMU for the USB and Chipset settings. Boot and see if it works then.