Quite a while ago I experienced some fairly serious stability/BIOS issues regarding USB 3 devices-installation/operation. Of course, somehow, all of it went away without "warning" and I'm left wandering.....WHAT...
🙂I finally may have figured it out and have tried this on 3 fresh installs plus whenever I'm adding/subtracting from. I have two identical external HDD enclosures housing two identical HDD. If I activate both devices without going through my adopted procedure forget it...the system boots into the BIOS, I cannot boot at all from the current BIOS to a host of other random no warning glitches.
I activate them now one by one so that upon installing the first one I go into Computer Management>Disk Management and reassign that USB 3 device to a another drive letter manually; something near the end of the alphabet-L for instance. Then I install the second one and repeat that procedure manually assigning it to say drive letter M. Perfect-no worries, all is heaven.
🙂I'm not sure, but, upon one of my attempts to get these two in particular installed and functioning I noticed in the driver install dialog when one first turns the devices on one by one letting the first finish before turning on the second one, Windows was assigning both the same drive letter! Manually assigning the drive letters particularly for these two fixed that.
🙂Just thought I would share....
"If you say you can't, then, you probably can't"