[colsanders]

AMD 3800+ X2
2GB DDR2 800
Asus M2N-VM DVI
Nvidia 6150 (intergrated Graphics)

I used to have a 7600gt agp, but im gona sell it on ebay to get money for an 8800gt

[Zeustheman]

I have had this exact problem with my new PC i just built, however I can get into the BIOS and i have not updated anything at all. It just boots up and shows the POST message after showing ASUS, and then bam.....USB over-current device blah blah blah remove usb system shut down in x seconds. I want to try updating the BIOS but im not real sure on how to do that, can anyone tell me?

[mtrinidad]

Thanks you for this post. I'm glad I ventured out in this direction. Prior to this, I looked at 3-4 boards as well but wasn't so fortunate there.

+1 to repairapc for the post.

For me, it was a GPU upgrade that prompted this error. I'm using an ASUS P5L-MX and upgraded my 7300GT 256MB video card to the 8800GT one. As soon as I came to the point when I had the card and power cables plugged I got this error. I couldn't find any solution to the problem since it occured after POST.

Luckily I found the USB jumpers on the board and saw that the USBPW5678 had no jumper. Plugged a jumper and set it to pin 1-2 and restarted. That did it.

Thanks!

[eremus77]

Hi!
I found this site when I looked for this message "USB over current detected...
My power supply got a short circuit and I smelt a nasty smell of burned cables.
I bought a new power supply and was afraid if anything else went down.
And indeed, after connecting the new power supply I got this message.
It was not the error with bios, because before that everything worked fine.
It must have been motherboard I thought. But I gave myself the last chance. I disconnected everything, took it on the bench and again connected. And it began to work!!!
So maybe there is some kind of current left in some way in things, I don't know.

asus m2n-e
amd athlon 64 3200+

[Skipper1975]

I, too, have had the pleasure to meet this message!

I had connected a USB device during a boot session, and then the message showed up... I wasn't even able to access the BIOS!
I tried to unplug, at first just one, and then all USB devices incl. my USB keyboard... and rebooted...

Nothing happened... the message showed up again!

Then I "Googled" the phrase "USB Over Current Status Detected, Computer will shut down in 15 seconds", and I found an advice to take out the MoBo's battery for approx. 15 minutes, so I did that, plugged in the battery and rebooted with only my monitor, USB keyboard and mouse... now I was able to access the BIOS!

When I logged on to Windows I plugged all my previously installed USB devices and, finally, the new one, and now popped up a message, that the USB had an "overload"... so I unplugged it again, reset the USB (after a Windows request), rebooted, and then plugged in an "empty" USB port (the port right next to was also empty)

And now everything works just fine!

So be careful not to plug in new USB devices before you've been logged on to Windows!

[Nickuk1987]

Hi I have a similar problem but its to do with the media card reader I installed recently. When I attached it to the mobo it came up with the USB Over Current warning. When I removed it it worked fine. How will I be able to fix this problem?

[useruser]

Some people asked how to downgrade the BIOS while circumventing the USB Over Current Status Detected message, here's how:

- take the CMOS battery out of the computer (or clear CMOS with CMOS jumper).

- unplug the power cord from the computer

- wait about 30 seconds for all power to discharge from the motherboard

- make sure the computer has a floppy disk drive installed

- have your bootable floppy disk with the BIOS downgrade ready and insert it in the floppy disk drive.

- boot computer

- a message to select either "Press F1 to run setup" or "Press F2 to load defaults and continue" ---> CHOOSE PRESS F2 !!!

- the computer will boot the floppy drive without chocking on the dreaded over current message which locks your computer.

Note: that is how I got rid of the over current message, by downgrading my BIOS on my ASUS A8V motherboard to version 0219.

Snafaru

[thekecmaster]

I'm building a computer for the first time, & I was able to get the machine turned on, but then the message "USB over current status detected, computer will shut down in 15 seconds." appears

FYI, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131275
is the link to the motherboard I purchased, the ASUS P5K PRO LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

I know that the first time someone suggested checking all the jumpers on the motherboard, but I am very new at this. What does a jumper look like?, & where again should I look for them?

[repairapc]

The jumpers are described in the manual under USBPWRnn.

They are little bits of plastic that slide onto metal pins on the motherboard. You may have a broken USB device so unplug all USB devices and try again this includes front USB ports that have nothing connected.

See post 3-DeC-2007 and work your way through it.

[celicagt]

Many thanks thethiago my motherboard ( asus p5pl2-e ) was also missing a jumper on one the the usbpwr jumpers, so not booting. Added a jumper and problem now solved.

[dschalau]

USB Over Current Status Detected, Computer will shut down in 15 seconds

I had this notification on my screen when I turned it on, All you need to do is open up the tower and trace the wires that are connected to your usb ports on either the front or back of the tower. You may have a defective usb that has the metal prongs touching each other or the sides of the usb port (as was the problem with mine). When you trace the wire follow it to you board and it should have a quick detach on it and just remove it. Then try to restart.

[titan1971]

Alas, same problem here.

This is my fathers PC, and I am house sitting for him. Last night, was listening to videos on Youtube on his system, no issues.

This morning, I go to put my 8800GT in his system to perform some testing, and voila, I get this over current error. Exasperated, I have searched these forums, and others for a solution. I have moderate PC knowledge, so many of these "fixes" were not outside of my ability.

Up until this post, I have:

1. Removed the CMOS battery for 15 minutes and reinstalled. I now have a CMOS checksum error also.

2. I did coincedentally find a jumper floating around in the bottom of the tower. This motherboard ( P5L-MX ), has 3 areas for USB Power. One is the default 1234, up near the top of the mobo. the second is in between the two PCI slots, label interestingly enough WIFI/USBPWR56. The last is by the botom of the motherboard, which is labeled USBPWR78 and connects to the front USB panel on the tower. I reconnected this stray jumper to 5/6 in the 1-2, 2-3, and 3-4 positions to no avail. The weird thing about that series of jumper pins, is that it is a 5x4 setup. I lost my manual ( argh ), and parallel to the 5 pins it says WIFI. Parallel to the 4 pins, it says USBPWR56. That bottom row is where I tried the jumper configurations. I tried removing the front panel USB wires ( USBPWR78 ) that go to the motherboard as well. I tried also playing with the USBPWR12 in different jumper configs as well. None of these attempt got rid of the error message.

3. I put his video card back in, and took mine out, no go on that attempt.

4. I downloaded an earlier bios revision and hooked up a floppy drive and a disk with bootable files on it. I used the method a gentleman listed above to get past the error by hitting F2. Everytime i hit F2 in that spot, it takes me to the error beeps and the message immediately. That being said, I cannot flash the bios to an earlier revision. The current revision I am using, is the one that came with the board, 1004.


I am so frustrated, that I am about to just buy a new damned board. I can get the same board for $35 new. It irks me that the simple switch of a video card, with safety precautions taken, could lead to such an issue.

Here is hoping that one of you techs can lead me to a solution that can help me before i go down that route. I did disconnect all of the USB devices except the mouse as well. My father has a 250GB extrnal HDD, and while it isnt connected, I notice that post seems to want to look for USB mass storage devices to which it finds 0.

I am using one stick of PC-5300 OCZ Ram as well. I had both 2GB stick in dual channel mode, but I took one out for testing, and it was working fine last night with the one stick.

Please help.

[hudey123]

Can you give me the motherboard make and model?

[titan1971]

It is above in my post, the Asus P5L-MX.

I have also recently tried booting up with the motherboard being out of the tower, to be sure that it wasnt a grounding issue with something touching the back of the mobo.

I just thought of something also. About a month ago, I got an error message on my fathers PC, saying something along the lines of "USB device power issue, device failed, etc etc"....I am not sure of the exact vernacular.

[hudey123]

You should have both USBPWR connectors jumpered in the default 1&2 position. Have you tried that, and made sure to remove the power and let all of the latent power leach out of the board?