Yes, some have severe issues with USB devices and not other USB devices. This drives people nuts since most think that if some printer/mouse/other devices work on USB, when they find something that doesn't work they can't accept that USB is not so black and white.

You can read more about this at http://www.usbman.com

Sometimes I can solve it by motherboard drivers and other times you add a PCI USB card to avoid replacing the motherboard.

Bob