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Dear Sir,

I was using my home computer with an Intel 850MV motherboard, 256MB RDRAM @ 600Mhz, ASUS V7100 Pro, PixelView PCI TV Tuner & Audigy2 on a 300W Power Supply, for some years now. Recently, I wanted to upgrade & get myself the following:


1. 500W power supply, as I was going to use the same cabinet;
2. Asus Motherboard P5GC-MX (1333 capable);
3. Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz;
4. 1GB DDR2 @ 667 Mhz RAM;
5. SATA HDD;
6. Pinnacle USB Stick Pro;


Currently I intend to set up the system only on these and later add my Audigy & and an ATI 2 series PCIx card with 256MB VRAM.


After changing to the new MB, CPU, RAM, Audigy & HDD, on the old Power Supply, I installed Windows XP with SP2 (Licensed), and all the MB drivers and the Pinnacle TV tuner I watched TV for sometime & shut down the system.
Next day, when I tried to boot up the system, I get an error right after the POST that says:
'USB device over current status detected
your computer will reboot in 15 seconds!'
and it does reboot by itself.


I have tried every trick in the book like clearing the BIOS via jumpers.
Disconnected all USB devices (there never was a powered USB device connected anytime).
Dismantling & reassembling the whole system.
Now I have taken out the Audigy too & changed to the new 500W SMPS.


It's been 3 days now & everytime I try to boot the system, I get the same error, the computer is never booting into Windows.
Could you please give me a solution to this problem? I have searched the web to find that this is not a new problem but there seems no proper solution is available to this one either. Do I need to change the MB?


Looking forward to your feedback.


Anupam Bhoumick

Try this
Go into bios setup
choose "load default settings"
save & exit

If that dont work download the latest bios for that MB and flash the bios.

system not letting me get into the BIOS, in fact I have not modified the yet, it is as shipped with the board. Moreover, I have reset the BIOS the hardware way (jumper).


I have downloaded the latest but can'tupgrade without the system booting up. I can't do it through a floppy as I don't have a floppy disk around for some years now..

Well, Im a pretty fart smeller, oops, I mean, smart feller, but this one is over my head.
BUT I think some of the "smarter than me" ones should be able to help, so hang in there abhoumick.
;)

no issues, thanks for extending a helping hand.


matter of fact I considered myself a smart fella for the last 10 years untill I got floored by this one....

My gut feeling is its a bum MB that you will havta send back.
BUT the "smarter than smart" ones will be all over this one, once they come online.
;)

Hi ABHoumick and welcome to PCWorld. :-)




First, I have renamed your Discussion to give a clearer picture of your problem. Now, as Snorg mentioned, one option is to update the BIOS; however, since you cannot get to the BIOS, there are a couple of other options. But first, can you please tell us your current computer specifications? You mentioned that you made changes to basically your entire system so there may be a conflict somewhere. Once you detailed your computer specifications, we can proceed from there.

I suspect an electrical short circuit or near to it.
Try unplugging any & all USB connectors on the MB and see if you can get into bios then.

All that I have conencted to make the PC now are as under:
# 500W power supply;
# Asus Motherboard P5GC-MX (1333 capable);
# Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz;
# 1GB DDR2 @ 667 Mhz RAM, Transcend;
# SATA HDD, Seagate;

iBall PS/2 keyboard & Logitech USB mouse. I have tried booting the system without the USB mouse too, no change.

I'm using the onboard VGA Out & no sound currently.

Once I have the PC set up, I have a 512 MB PCIx VGA & Audigy 4 waiting to be fitted into the configuration.

After assembling, I have already installed Windows XP Professional, Pinnacle USB PRO Stick (TV Tuner). But currently the Pinnacle stick is diconnected.

Currently, my PC is in the same status as reported couple of days back AND THERE ARE NO USB DEVICES CONNECTED TO THE SYSTEM CURRENTLY.

Hey and Welkom to Pc world, as to snorg it can can't be a bum Mb as if it was then it will not give a screen, so when the computer loads before the blue screen try pushing F8 or delete, have you tried like that?

done all that, nothing works, the comp does not respond to any keystroke at all, it is not even allowing me to enter the Bios, there is a double beep right after the single beep of the POST & the next thing displayed is this error message with a warning of shutdown...

Hi abhoumick.

Got the same problem myself. 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. It was so frustrating.
Fortunately enough here's the solution. The problem (at least in my case) was that my motherboard USB device lacked jumpers specifically in USBPW5678 (chek your motherboard documentation to get to the jumper location). As I said, 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.
It booted all the way to Windows.
Hope that helps.

Hi MTrinidad and welcome to PCWorld :-)




Thank you for offering that suggestion. That may do it. ABHoumick, please try the suggestion provided by MTrinidad and see if this solves your problem.

Thanks for your help, but, unfortunately the solution came a trifle too late. I cannot test it out now as I have changed the MB to a higher model from GIGABYTE the GA-73PVM-S2H. This one is a HTPC board with good features & very good performance. It has got 3 PCI slots & I'm using my Audigy 4 ZX & Hauppage WinTV PCI card along with an Asus 8600GT PCIx card with 512MB DDR RAM, I've got a fantastic HTPC now.

Guys thanks to all of you who have taken the time to read my problem & tried to help. I appriciate your help.

With Pleasure, Abhoumick. :D I have marked this Discussion as Assumed Answered. If you run into any more problems, please post and let us know.

Check all USB jumpers
I just assembled a system with a ASUS P5K-VM board, and when I first booted it, I got the "USB Device Over Current Status Detected !!" error. After 2.5 hours of trying everything, I noticed a blue jumper lying in the box the board came in. The jumper was used to select if the USB-port is on when the PC is off. When I connected the jumper, the system worked.