Windows 10: USB Device Descriptor Request Failed Error

A few days back perhaps just after my recent update Windows 10 pro mysurface pro 3 suddenly stopped recognizing my external USB mic. To check if it was just my mic, I tried a various other USB devices like pen drives of different formatting and different capacities, even an external hard drive, I found that while my mic did not work, most of my external hard drives work, some of my pen drives don't work. I since tried all sorts of solutions so far.


i rolling back the windows 10 updates

ii trying to update the drivers

iii uninstall the drivers rebooting so new drivers will be picked

iv uninstall the USB devices, drivers and controllers reboot and let the system identify new hardware


nothing I do seems to work.


Can someone please help me figure out what I should do to make it work again?

:)

 

a request for device descriptor request failed

Maybe it's time to step back from the current efforts, and start over. I suggest you read over this excellent tutorial and try all of its steps: [Solved] Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed) for Windows 10 - Driver Easy. The one that may provide you with some easy relief is the one where you uninstall the device whose descriptor is failing, reboot, and see what happens when device enumeration recurs during boot-up. If you're lucky, it will fix itself.
HTH,
--Ed--

 

a request for device descriptor request failed

my bios is and custom unlocked bios (latest version) (thanks to Bios Mods -The Best BIOS Update and Modification Source ) because of lenovo hardware whitlist maybe thats causing the problem???

 

A request for the USB device descriptor failed. Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)

A request for the USB device descriptor failed. Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)

When I connect my Tascam 202 MKVII cassette player to record through USB port using Windows 10 OS, the USB port shows this message and does not recognize the hardware.

May I please know, How to get rid of this issue?

Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)

Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43)

A request for the USB device descriptor failed.