GA-B75M-D3H USB issue

[turboscrew]

Sorry, deleted a duplicate account under which this was originally written.
I re-entered the question under the right account now, and deleted the duplicate account.

so:

Are there any known USB issues with  GA-B75M-D3H rev 1.1 motherboard?

Can anybody give me any hints about how to find out what's going on with the USB?

My problem showed up as a  printer issue, but it seems that the problem is more related to USB.
I've tried Debian 7.1, - 7.4, some ubuntu distro (don't remember the release) and a couple of Linux Mint distros (13, 15, 16, both 32 and 64 bit) without any luck. Tried several USB-ports too (no hubs or anything in between).
Even flashed a new BIOS (F15), but it didn't help. (the old one was F11)

The printer is Canon Pixma MP140 which every distro has recognized fine.

Usually the printing starts fine, but after page or two it slows down to one head sweep per 10 mins, or it stops on the last page totally (and needs power cord reset to recover).

With the Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon 64-bit live-DVD þe printing slowed the end of the last full page (one line per 10 minutes) and at the end
(on the last page containing just a couple of lines) the printing stopped altogether leaving a paper in.

With the exactly same live-DVD on my laptop it printed fine.
(Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Li 2735)

I tried (GA-B75M-D3H board) with both USB 3.0/2.0 and USB 2.0/1.1 ports and same problem with both.

The printer is this far the only thing that has problems. Webcam and USB memory sticks work fine, and so do
my android phone and camera through an USB cable.

[autotech]

What is the main Operating system on your laptop.  When I ran a dual boot off a gm85 motherboard I had dual boot with windows and fedora. When I did that everything worked good but when I went to just fedora I started having problems and gave up using it by itself. I figured somehow it was picking up stuff off of my windows drivers or something making it work with both.

[turboscrew]

Windows Vista.
Do you think trying with cold start instead of rebooting might make a difference?
I guess that's worth trying?
I wouldn't like to wipe the windows just fr trying. Especially since there are no installation media included with the computers
nowadays.

Did you have UEFI?
I don't.

[autotech]

At the time it was on vista to start 64 bit. I changed to windows 7 shortly after that and changed to SSD drives and so on. Haven't use fedora since then except for once and I have to admit I think half my problems were cause by the train wreck of vista.

On my dual boot of windows 7 and fedora I didn't have any problems at all but now that I think of it I changed CPU and motherboard also.

As far as that goes you can make a back-up of vista im sure or maybe do a search and find a vista iso you can download and burn to disk. You have the key off your computer if it is still readable.

[turboscrew]

Hm, I think, getting another (cheap) HD might be easier.
And I could try with another laptop now running only Linux Mint 13 (that is - with the CUPS-versin still having the "Canon-bug")
after upgrading to 16 or (rather) 17.

The downside is that it doesn't have Windows, so I dn't know for sure if it would work with Windows.

[turboscrew]

An update: I tried with my old T42 (Mint13 installed, no Windows anywhere, not even in a VM) with Lubuntu 14.04.
Had to use 'forcepae', but otherwise no manual extras.
Printer printed the same file fine.

[turboscrew]

WHOA: The printing of the same file works with 32-bit Lubuntu 14.04 LTS Live CD!

WHAT!:
Coldstart of the desktop onto Mint 17 64-bit, cold start of printer, made SURE that the USB-port was
the same that last time gave trouble: NOW PRINTED FINE! (USB2.0/1.1 port)

Did Lubuntu fix my printer/desktop USB or something?

In usb3.0/USB2.0-port the printer still died for a couple of minutes on the last page,
but didn't die altogether, like it used to (waited for hours).

I can't seem to be able to reproduce the problem any more after trying Lubuntu.

Now I can only wait and see if the 'cure' lasts.

Any idea what happened?