Dead USB Ports
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Left the RPi3 running (RetroPie) for a number of hours recently while using the Universal XML Scraper to catalog my Mega Drive ROMs. All seemed well and the UXS did a great job on smaller games lists like the Virtual Boy or PC Engine. I'd left things running and went out on errands. Came back and saw that UXS scraped all the MD games. I closed it out on my PC, nothing seeming amiss. A bit later I went to check out the newly scraped MD games list and RetroPie was frozen...or so I thought.
I shut it off at the power strip then back on. Booted just fine but stopped when no USB controller was detected. I'd had my SNES-like controller plugged in at the time so it shouldn't be that. I SSH'd (via Putty) and was able to shut the RPi3 down that way. Testing both controllers I have via PC showed them in working order. A wireless USB keyboard also wasn't working.
A fresh install of RetroPie later and still no luck. I read about editing a file to make sure the USB drivers were booting up before Emulation Station but as that hadn't been a problem before I wasn't going to monkey with files I don't have the skill/knowledge to be poking into.
A third option I tried was instead installing Recalbox, thinking maybe it was something with RetroPie. Same problem with Recalbox.
I was able to again SSH in and check the USB status, which returned no device info despite 3 different USB devices plugged in at the time of testing (normally it's just the one controller.) I shut down the RPi3 yet again and poked around the forum here and Google in general. Nothing I saw quite fit the bill or offered a solution.
Is there any way to bring the USB functionality back to the board or is it borked and I should just toss a new one into my Amazon cart?
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@Starcade2084 Sounds like it may well be broken - but you could open a thread on the official Raspberry pi forum as they have people from the company there etc - https://www.raspberrypi.org/
To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@BuZz Thanks for the tip. I'll post this over there to see if anything positive can come of it. At least replacing a single-board computer is MUCH cheaper than a PC.
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