MSI X79A-GD45 Plus Odd USB problems...

I'm having some odd issues with my MSI X79A-GD45 Plus... The system overall works well, and other than these little nagging annoyances the machine works.
I'm looking for any other suggestions you all might have of this issue.
Every so often when I plug a device into the USB 3.0 ports the devices are not recognized. This ranges from flash drives to USB headsets. Rebooting the machine does not solve this. I have to shut down completely and cold boot to get the ports back up and running. It matters not if I use the front panel ports or the rear. All the while my keyboard and mouse which are in the rear USB 2.0 ports never fail to work.
I am going to plug the front panel into the USB 2.0 headers on the mainboard just to test and see if I get the same results, I'm thinking that should tell me weather or not the motherboard or the front panel is the culprit.
That aside any other suggestions would be very much appreciated.
One other thing and I am not sure if this is related to my issue... Most of the time when I boot the machine, the text for the POST messages are very large, like real zoomed in. If I go to the BIOS when this happens the BIOS is also way zoomed in and it is very slow/unresponsive. If I want to use the BIOS I have to restart the machine until I get the text normal looking, even then the BIOS seems kind of slow compared to my last MSI board (990FXA-GD80) which had this same type of click BIOS. This phenomena happened both with the BIOS the board came with and with the updated BIOS I installed to fix a sound issue.
Again not sure if that has anything to do with the USB thing but I wanted to put that here just in case the issues are related.

Try updating the NEC firmware:
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USB 3.0
• 1 USB 3.0 onboard connector by NEC® D720202
• 2 USB 3.0 rear I/O ports by NEC® D720202
http://www.station-drivers.com/index.php/articles/388-renesas-nec-upd72020x-usb-3-0-controller-firmware-version-2-0-2-4

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Quote from: RemusM on 24-October-12, 21:48:57
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I can almost gaurantee that ram is 1333, with an 1600 oc profile.(XMP)
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Bios Version: 17.8 (last update)
Video Card: Gigabyte GV-R577UD-1GD
PSU: Thermaltake M750w
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SSD/ HDD: 1tb Barracuda ST1000DM003
CPU COOLER: NA
Raid Card: extenal card NO
Sound Card: NA
Any Additional hardware plugged into your system: Non
OC: (Yes / No) NO
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