USB Freaking out

So I built a computer a few days ago, everything was running fine until yesterday when I started getting random USB errors. All I have plugged in is the keyboard and mouse to the computer. The message says windows does not recognize the USB device. Its super annoying though because this mysterious device disconnects and re connects all the time, giving me a pop up notification. I tried updating the drivers, which windows couldn't find, and then I tried and disabling the device, which does not work because it disconnects and reconnects. I have an MSI Gaming 5 z97 MOBO. Any thoughts?
PS Just switched from Mac so I may be a little bit rough on terms.

Here the stats on the system
Board: MSI z97 Gaming 5
Bios: Version 1.8
GPU: MSI GTX 970
PSU: Rosewell 750w
Intel Core i& 4970k (Not overclocked)
MEM: Corsair 1600 (2x 8gigs)
HDD: WD Black(3tb)
COOLER: Corsair h100i (I removed corsair link so thats not the problem)
OS: Windows 8.1 64bit Professional
Also have a Corsair k70 and Raptor m45 plugged in. The k70 has a hub but I unpluged the throughput and it was still doing it.

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