How Do You Physically Identify USB Ports?

[Dryvus]

Two of the ports in my desktop are ****ing retarded and don't work when Windows wakes. There's 16 entries under USB controllers in the device manager. How do you tell which are which?

 

[Splintert]

USB ports are usually controlled by motherboard BIOS settings, check there to see if they're in sleep mode or something.

In Windows, your best bet is to identify the ones that work by checking the following information:

Location: Port_#000x.Hub_#000y

Where x and y identify the hub and the port depending on your configuration. The information is listed under the properties of the USB device, and if it does not have that information then it is not a port.

 

[Dryvus]

How do I correspond that to identify which port on my computer is which?

 

[Splintert]

You repeatedly plugged a mouse or something into different ports and write down which port is which ID. It's not something you need to know 99.999% of the time, which is why its so obtuse.