Asus "Republic of Gamers" G60JX USB Port issue
I have an Asus G60JX, the 2010 (ish) addition. About a year ago the USB ports stopped working on it entirely. One of them has physical damage but the other 3 are undamaged. At first I just assumed that I had shorted out the USB hub and figured I'd have to replace the mobo to fix the problem but a few weeks ago I took the thing apart to replace the thermal paste on the video card and found that the USB ports on the left are attached to the mobo by a PCI ribbon, the same one that connects the audio ports which work just fine. The webcam that is also attached to the base USB hub also works fine. I tried reinstalling and updating all the USB drivers and the chipset drivers and the ports still don't work. The ones on the left (the PCI ribbon ports) have power but not data, they don't recognize any devices when plugged in but will charge my ipod with no problem. Doesn't anyone know of a similar problem and a possible solution to it? Any help would be appreciated I'd really like at least one or two ports back.  
Asus "Republic of Gamers" G60JX USB Port issue
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I have an Asus G60JX, the 2010 (ish) addition. About a year ago the USB ports stopped working on it entirely. One of them has physical damage but the other 3 are undamaged. At first I just assumed that I had shorted out the USB hub and figured I'd have to replace the mobo to fix the problem but a few weeks ago I took the thing apart to replace the thermal paste on the video card and found that the USB ports on the left are attached to the mobo by a PCI ribbon, the same one that connects the audio ports which work just fine. The webcam that is also attached to the base USB hub also works fine. I tried reinstalling and updating all the USB drivers and the chipset drivers and the ports still don't work. The ones on the left (the PCI ribbon ports) have power but not data, they don't recognize any devices when plugged in but will charge my ipod with no problem. Doesn't anyone know of a similar problem and a possible solution to it? Any help would be appreciated I'd really like at least one or two ports back.  