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Skylarun
Sep 01, 2026Brass Contributor
I got the USB initialization timing problems
Every time I start up or wake my Windows PC from sleep, my USB keyboard, mouse, and external drives either fail to initialize at all or take an unusually long time of about thirty seconds before they...
Gamvanni
Sep 04, 2026Brass Contributor
What you're describing is a classic USB initialization or timing issue. The problem isn't that your USB ports are dead, but that the handshake between your system and the USB devices is getting stalled during startup.