# My Traktor S4 crashes my ASUS Windows 7 laptop because of the USB 3 ports. HELP? **URL:** \ **Category:** Traktor\ **Created:** [October 3, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018 "2013-10-03T15:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kbridge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/kbridge/32/15078_2.png) [@kbridge](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/kbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/1 "2013-10-03T15:06:36Z")
**My Traktor S4 crashes my ASUS Windows 7 laptop because of the USB 3 ports. HELP?** Hey guys, my problem is a common one - that my ASUS NV56M laptop only has USB 3 ports, and thus when I plug my Traktor S4 into it, the whole thing crashes and gives me a Blue Screen Of Death My one and only option is to upgrade to Windows 8 it seems, but that is the last thing I want to do - do I have any other options?! This is a cry for help! Thanks for any advice! ---
**Author:** ![makar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@makar1](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/makar1)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/2 "2013-10-03T15:20:24Z")
What S4 driver version are you using? ---
**Author:** ![kbridge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/kbridge/32/15078_2.png) [@kbridge](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/kbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/3 "2013-10-03T15:23:14Z")
> [@makar1](#): > > What S4 driver version are you using? I can’t remember, but I updated around a week and a half ago, so the latest! ---
**Author:** ![makar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@makar1](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/makar1)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/4 "2013-10-03T15:29:46Z")
Are your Chipset and USB drivers up to date? [http://www.asus.com/uk/Notebooks\_Ultrabooks/N56VM/#support\_Download](http://www.asus.com/uk/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/N56VM/#support_Download) ---
**Author:** ![kbridge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/kbridge/32/15078_2.png) [@kbridge](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/kbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/5 "2013-10-03T16:02:29Z")
> [@makar1](#): > > Are your Chipset and USB drivers up to date? > > [http://www.asus.com/uk/Notebooks\_Ultrabooks/N56VM/#support\_Download](http://www.asus.com/uk/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/N56VM/#support_Download) This is me replying to you after getting back from BSOD, so unfortunately that didn’t work 😞 thanks anyway for the suggestion! ---
**Author:** ![makar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@makar1](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/makar1)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/6 "2013-10-03T16:19:41Z")
Some more N56VM users here: > **[ASUS n56v USB 3.0 Traktor Problems](https://forum.djtechtools.com/showthread.php?t=60798)** > > I posted this in General Discussion first, but realized that wasn't the best place to post it. > > I heard there was a discussion thread on here about these issues but I can't find it. Can someone please link it to me? > > I got this laptop 3 weeks... ---
**Author:** ![ImNotDedYet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/imnotdedyet/32/13269_2.png) [@ImNotDedYet](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/ImNotDedYet)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/7 "2013-10-03T17:09:08Z")
Didn’t think USB 3.0 was supported with NI stuff? Can you downgrade to 2.0 or 2.0 compatible drivers? Looks like that last post has some ways to possibly do this. ---
**Author:** ![makar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@makar1](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/makar1)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/8 "2013-10-03T18:13:18Z")
My Audio 2 on USB 3.0 works fine on my Win7 desktop, and fine on my Macbook Air running Win8. There was a driver update some time ago that prevented the blue screens but apparently not for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Alubat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/alubat/32/16343_2.png) [@Alubat](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/Alubat)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/9 "2013-10-03T22:31:01Z")
> [@kbridge](#): > > Hey guys, > > my problem is a common one - that my ASUS NV56M laptop only has USB 3 ports, and thus when I plug my Traktor S4 into it, the whole thing crashes and gives me a Blue Screen Of Death > > My one and only option is to upgrade to Windows 8 it seems, but that is the last thing I want to do - do I have any other options?! > > This is a cry for help! > > Thanks for any advice! > **[Review Asus N56VZ-S4044V Notebook](https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Asus-N56VZ-S4044V-Notebook.78305.0.html)** > > In-depth review of the Asus N56VZ-S4044V (Intel Core i7 3610QM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, 15.6", 2.7 kg) with many measurements, benchmarks and ratings “Asus says good bye to the old USB 2.0 version of ports, on both sides of the notebook, USB 3.0 connectors are the only ones installed. The probable reason is that Ivy Bridge chipsets support USB 3.0 natively, and manufacturers can avoid having to squeeze additional chips into their notebooks.” If this is the case and you cannot disable usb3 in bios or device manager, you might have a problem since usb3 is not suitable for audio ---
**Author:** ![beaubryte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.djtechtools.com/beaubryte/32/56478_2.png) [@beaubryte](https://forum.djtechtools.com/u/beaubryte)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/my-traktor-s4-crashes-my-asus-windows-7-laptop-because-of-the-usb-3-ports-help/61018/10 "2013-10-04T11:45:28Z")
> [@ASUS n56v USB 3.0 Traktor Problems](https://forum.djtechtools.com/t/asus-n56v-usb-3-0-traktor-problems/48893/2): > > I have the same N-series laptop (Asus N56VM), it has only usb 3.0 ports and it will crash with audio devices, not only the S2 /s4. > You can disable the USB 3.0 ports in windows 7 by installing 2.0 drivers, but I recommend windows 8 to get the most out of your computer. It fixes all hardware issues and gets your pc on par. > > I tried disabling 3.0 it myself, but then I ran into various issues (like using outdated drivers) that I don’t want on a new laptop. > So I upgraded to windows 8 for a few bucks, now my laptop runs very stable and lightning fast. I use it as a music workstation only and for that task Win8 is very suitable. > Now I don’t say Windows8 is a great OS (it’s not) but it runs very smooth with low resources and most drivers for the N56 are updated for windows 8. > So for real performance on a neat machine like the N56 I would say that’s the way to go. Really, Traktor+S4 runs great on the n56v after the windows 8 upgrade. Only thing this OS needs to tweak is disabling live tile animations and schedule the maintenance settings, less then 1-minute work to get most out of this powerful machine.