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USB Won’t Act Right

Dear Doctor, I’m hoping you can help me with a problem that’s been plaguing me for the last year: My USB ports can’t all be used at the same time. I’m only using a keyboard (two ports), a mouse (one port), and a Logitech C920 webcam (one port). They all plug into an Asus Sabertooth X99 motherboard, with a Core i7-5930K, and 32GB of Corsair RAM. I have to frequently switch the mouse (a Corsair Ironclaw) between USB ports for it to be recognized. This wouldn’t be an issue if I didn’t have to run Linux so often for my job. When I use Windows or Linux exclusively, there is no problem. All my drivers are current and I’m using the latest version of Windows 10.

I’m also running two GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics cards, a Samsung 950 Pro NVMe SSD for the boot drive, and

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