[titan1971]

I thought it was odd that a jumper could have fallen off of the pins for USBPWR56. Apparently, that is only jumpered when you have an external USB hub being added internally.

I now have the jumper off of the pins for USBPWR56, as I have no additional internal hub hubs added. For reference however, I did indeed try a reboot or two with those pins jumpered for pins 1/2.

I tried leaving the board unpowered, and with the CMOS battery out for 15 minutes. I would think that would be enough time for the latent power to leech out of the board? Or do you suggest more time than that?

A friend of mine suggested that I try to boot into safe mode to maybe help troubleshoot, and the minute i hit F8, I get the double beep and the error message as well.

It seems I get that message after the post says "Initializing USB controllers"....

[hudey123]

Yeah, I think that would be long enough to drain the power.

Have you downloaded the manual from ASUS web site? I would download it (in the Support section) and check out all of the motherboard jumpers and the default positions for them, and get a jumper on all of the default locations.

Then I would use the Clear RTC RAM jumper to default the CMOS. This is the CLRTC jumper - take out the power cable, remove the on-board battery, take the CLRTC jumper off of pins 1/2 and put it on 2/3 for about 15 seconds. Then take it off and put it back on 1/2. Reconnect battery, plug it in, and try again.

Hopefully you can figure it out. The mobo I was working on just needed a 1/2 jumper pin on the second USBPWR connector, and that simple solution solved the problem.

[titan1971]

Just tried what you suggested, and now i get 3 beeps and 3 error messages.

2 CMOS errors ( config, time ) and the USB over current detection error.

Boggles me what the heck could be causing this out of the blue.


The absolute only thing I haven't tried, is reverting the BIOS firmware to an earlier version, and of course I cannot try it, because even with a bootable disk, it gives me the error message before the floppy can actuate.

I find it odd that it may be the BIOS firmware, as it has been running this Version 1004 since March without a hiccup.

[hudey123]

Do you have another power supply you could try? That's the only other thing I can think of (BIOS version seems a million to one longshot to me).

[titan1971]

I do, maybe i could try it.

I might ask however, how would a power supply be the culprit?

It seemed to work fine for 7 months without issue...

[hudey123]

It's just a step that I would take if I were in the same situation. Since the issue is a power issue, I would just try swapping the supply to make sure it's not the problem.

Since I've had this problem and fixed it by just replacing a jumper, I would be totally against buying a new motherboard in this situation because I had fixed the problem before without any lingering effects. So I'd just keep trying to replace components with spares to see if it has any effect.

I know, not a very scientific approach, but it's worked for me in the past.

[titan1971]

Ahhh gotcha.

Well I will try that in about 30 minutes and see what happens.

Thanks for the advice.

[titan1971]

Update:

Well, guess I fit the role of the town moron.

Upon finding a schematic of my motherboard, I didnt notice that there was an actual set of jumper pins right next to the PCI-E slot. I don't know HOW I missed them.

Anyhow, once I looked, it said: USBPWR5678. Odd because there is another set of pins that says that also. Anyhow, it makes sense. Once I took out his vid card to pop in the 8800, I must habe dislodged the jumper, as I did indeed find it on the floor of the tower 5 minutes later.

Long story short, I popped the jumped into THIS set of pins, and it boots to Windows, I am estatic.

Now the question is, do I still try to put my 8800 back into his system now!?!? /evilgrin ......

Thanks again for your help, much apreciated.

[hudey123]

As long as it meets the specs for the power supply it requires I don't see how it can hurt.

Glad you found the problem!

[DrenDor]

I had this exact error message myself right after rebuilding my main PC. Turned out I had my 2 case USB cables (2 single row strips) installed backwards. Upon turning them around my PC went back to working normally.

So be careful installing USB cables that are NOT the double row ones with the missing pin to show what way they go.

[RedGiant]

Ahh you guys have given me much hope. I have had my first PC for almost a year now, and I unplugged the speakers 4 nights ago to take somewhere. Well I guess I must have moved up my case enough to loosen one of these jumpers.

It worked fine when I unplugged the speakers, and plugged them back in. I then shutdown my PC for the night and this problem arose the next morning.

Also 2 weeks ago my 2GB thumb drive was in the front/side USB port and I carelessly pulled my dresser drawer out and it hit the thumb drive, which bent the ports. . . . but they still worked after. It sounds like the combination of my two events is what did it.

I will post back when I get to try this out. Thanks!

[iframe]

USB Over Current Status Detected = Get a new mobo mate.
Well if its stil under warenty dont go flashing it ..
Just send it in and get a new one or a repaired one.

[RedGiant]

Thanks for the speedy response to my post. I did get it fixed, but I didn't have any trouble with Jumpers like I was reading.

My problem was the 2 ports on the fron/side I had damaged. The plastic piece dividing the two ports was pushed all the way into the pins. This was the culprit, because all I did was straighten it out. They still work, but they are much more sensitive so I don't see myself using them anymore.

Thanks for the great info!