Okay, so I am pretty damned good with computers, but admittedly I am seriously stumped. From being on this site for a while, I know that there are some very clever people here and hopefully you guys and girls can help. I have an Acer Aspire 7750G-9810. It's the i7, AMD HD 7670 2gb vram, 6gb ddr3 ect laptop. There is a usb 3.0 port and 2 regular 2.0 ports. The 3.0 port will work perfectly fine for a few minutes and then it stops working. I've noticed that it thinks that it still has the same device plugged in that was in when it stopped working. I had originally thought that it was perhaps burnt out from using my external sound card and plugging in my guitar amplifier, but that would not explain the fact that it consistently works EVERY time when the computer is restarted.
This totally sounds like a software issue, but I am completely at a loss. I have done all of the obvious troubleshooting like updating drivers and reinstalling drivers so that's not gonna help me at all. Also, I have never reinstalled my OS or used any foreign OS unless it was with VMware or VirtualBox.
Man, if anyone figured this out I will owe you something because it's really really pissing me off. Thanks in advance.