Well it's no longer recognized in windows when it does that, if I just unplug and plug the usb cable back in it shows up and "unrecognized device".

It stays in that state until I take the measures mentioned before.

It's done this across several motherboards over the years intermittently, but now ...

Any estimate as to how far in the future? I would be willing to throw my old rheostat baybus in and wait if it's not going to be too long.

I also wouldn't mind fixing my MX4 if yall have any ideas why lcdc has gradually begun to halt with com errors. Once it halts, lcdc is unable to connect to it ...

I've got an old mx4 that starting to die on me so I was thinking about possibly replacing it with another MO product. From what I can tell the GLK19264-7T-1U-USB-YG seems to be the closest in functionality to the MX4 for graphical LCD's.

My primary use for the screen is to control fans, lights and ...