Windows 10: USB drives displaying weird icons (i believe in usb 3.0 ports only)

This was never an issue until extremely recently. Unfortunately I didnt pick up on exactly when it began happening.

All 3 of my usb external hard drives and my usb stick show weird icons in devices and printers (theyre the ones labled "device" if it isnt obvious lol) The usb stick shows that same weird icon in explorer.

The drives P/Q/R/U are the ones showing weird in devices and printers. Only U shows weird in explorer.

U has an autorun.inf and autorun.ico in order for it to look like a USB stick. It displays this properly if I move it to a usb 2.0 port. Why it no longer does in a usb 3 port is beyond me.

P/Q/R simply showed as hard disks like they do in explorer, in devices and printers - which is no longer the case either. I cant test if this is the same behavior in a usb 2 port as the cords for them are very much zip tied and shortened that theyre basically permanent until such a time i have to replace them. I would assume the behavior is identical though.

I obviously tried unplugging/replugging several times. windows is completely up to date. ran sfc/dism and they came up fine. rebuilt icon cache.

At a loss at this point. Did the newest windows update change something or have an issue that needs addressing in a future update? im on 1909 build 18363.449








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USB Port Oddities


Ok, let's see it with pictures step-by-step. First right-click on the USB device and select Update driver software:





Then select Browse my computer for driver software (LAST option) :





The select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer (LAST option) :





Then select the standard driver from the list and click next:





Click next/OK as required to complete installation. Repeat the steps for all Intel USB devices. Finally click on each USB root device and press DEL to delete it, reply YES when asked. After deleting all USB root devices restart the computer.

I hope this is detailed enough...

 

USB 3.0 transfer speed drops to 0 only on one port. USB port and external drive are NOT defective.

I have a Dell XPS 13 laptop with two USB 3.0 ports. I connect a Seagate expansion drive to the left USB port and transfer a 4GB test file. It transfers about 1GB at 150MB/s and then transfer speed drops to 0. Then it picks up again after 3-4minutes, then
drops again intermittently.

I connect the same Seagate drive to the right USB port. The same 4GB file transfers with a constant speed of approximately 150MB/s. Thus the Seagate drive is not defective. Perhaps the left USB port is defective.

I connect a Sandisk 128GB flash drive to the left USB port (that is now suspected defective). It transfers the same 4GB file with constant 130MB/s speed, no speed drops!

Each step is reproducible 10x.

I am out of my wits here.

 

USB 3 Ports not working

Hi folks,
i was trying to copy some files from an external drive using the usb 3 port on my M/B but it doesnt work, i downloaded the drivers from the Manufacturers website but no luck either, am i missing an important step here? i havent checked the Bios yet
GA-Z170XP-SLI (rev. 1.0) | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global