I’m running Windows 10 and recently bought an Audioquest DragonFly Red USB DAC – ever since, the device is of course plugged in constantly so that I don’t need to reconnect it each time I start the computer but this resulted in the computer never shutting down properly. Whenever the DAC is plugged in and received power (which it always does as it’s always lit up) and I try to power off the machine, it turns off and then immediately restarts. Even then, when I power it down with the power button on the BitLocker password screen, it’ll still restart indefinitely, until I finally press and hold the power button at which point it’ll power off and stay that way.
Why may that be? It sounds to me like something in the BIOS is keeping the PC from shutting down when it finds a running USB device but to me it looks like everything’s fine there (the mobo is Fatal1ty H87 Performance):
What is causing that behaviour, then?
