USB port turns on and off

[brianshmrian]

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[RESPONDED] 1TB expansion card disconnects randomly

New here. Batch6 with Intel i7-1165G7. My 1tb expansion card somewhat randomly disconnects and reconnects, I think while doing sustained writes. Tested on linux. Haven’t diagnosed it properly yet. So I’ll provide some probably useless info for now. While properly locked in place, the filesystems on the device will suddenly become readonly. Just before this occurs, dmesg shows a usb disconnect event, the fs failing to write a few times and becoming readonly, the usb connect event, and the reco…

[RESPONDED] Quirky USB Port

(I originally posted this in a thread on display output problems, though I now think it’s unrelated. It might be related to this other post on USB-A Yubikey problems…) I’ve had a problem with a couple of external USB hard drives when plugging them into one of the laptop’s USB ports. The drives get power but no data. At least, the drive doesn’t appear in the list of drives, but its light stays on. I’ve tried swapping the USB-A framework expansion cards (I have two), but the problem only happ…

Edit (just noticed this post as well):

One of the four internal ports is not reliable

Update on update on update: Framework Computer Inc sent me a replacement mainboard. After following Mainboard Replacement Guide - Framework Guides everything seems to be working fine at the moment. Top service. Thank you.

Michael_Wu (in the second thread) is currently investigating if replacing the motherboard fixes the problem for him.