This is... a very weird and strangely specific problem. Late last year, my V-Studio 20 audio interface just up and stopped working. After re-installing the drivers to no success, I had presumed the worst and decided that it probably died because I used it quite often. I have three different computers. One that runs Windows 10, one that runs Windows 8, and another that runs Windows Vista. Just to make sure the computer wasn't the issue, I tried it on each of them, and each and every time, Windows makes a sound indicating that it's found a new USB connection, but the device itself refuses to light up and none of my DAW's recognize the MIDI drivers or the Effects driver (making the VS-20 editor software frankly useless at this point, which is a shame because I quite like the amp sims included in that).
Earlier this year, I received an Android tablet. Out of some morbid curiosity, I decided to plug various things into the USB input just to see what would work. For some reason, I decided to try the V-Studio 20, which I had still lying around despite not using it. To my surprise, it works flawlessly well on my tablet. It lights up punctually and the DAW I installed on it recognizes it and records from it without any hassle. More recently, I purchased a new hard drive for my old laptop and installed Ubuntu. Again, out of curiosity, I tried to plug in the V-Studio 20 and it worked.
To finally rule out any possible doubt that the operating system was the problem, I ran a demo of Ubuntu on my Vista computer (which, if you'll recall, did not recognize the device earlier) and... it worked.
So basically, for some reason, my V-Studio 20 seems to have become self aware to the point where it refuses to work on ANY computer that runs ANY version of Windows. That's... extremely weird. I have never had a piece of hardware be that selective.
Sorry for the extremely verbose rant; I just wanted to give a detailed idea as to the kind of difficulty I'm having and the steps I've taken to test the problem. If anyone has any suggestions on how I can fix this issue, that would be greatly appreciated.