A shot in the dark: BIOS have this option called something like "Enable USB legacy support". Having it enabled sometimes does not allow you to boot into Linux (don't ask me why, this used to happen on my old laptop). Try disabling it. It might force Linux to recognize the port as USB 2.0?
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