Wierd allEvents

[board2death986]

Well first of all I tried to install my 7900 GTO from a rig i'm now using as a file server into my htpc, and i found it's fried, as any system i install it into won't post.

Now after replacing my vid card in the server with an old voodoo (which works fine) as soon as I start booting after post it gets to my USB front card reader and after it finishes that I get an error message "USB OVER CURRENT STATUS DETECTED", and the system shuts down.

In addition to that earlier the other day I noticed the fan on my power supply is dead. I'm guessing the problem is obviously the PSU, although with the amount of wiring I guess maybe I should check all my USB connections to the motherboard (only ones are for top and front panel hubs), the top mounted isn't guided by the normal square design, could installing that backwards damage other components (doubtful this is the cause as i've used the top USB hub without problems)


*edit* i must be tired, my title reads Wierd allevents. . . i could've sworn i just typed Wierd Events?

 

[bigredcat]

Make sure nothing is in the USB jacks. You could also have something grounding out the power to ground. That's not good. It's a quick and easy visual check. Though I doubt this is your problem. From the way you make it sound, your PSU maybe going out the door.

 

[board2death986]

tried everything concerning the USB connections, so that's not it. As for grounding it to the ground, what would I look for? I took out all the power connections, reconnected everything and still got the error.
The PSU boots fine, but the fan is out. So I'm not 100% sure it's failing, but i'll connect another PSU when I have a few minutes to disconnect everything again. If that doesn't work either than it must be the motherboard screws, or mounts they are screwed into.

This problem really sucks as I was just prepping the server by wiping the OS, reinstalling a clean slate and setting it remotely in my closet, the last step was to get the motherboard driviers and basic apps installed before getting it into the closet, and then this crap problem came out of nowhere (the machine booted fine at least 5 times before this came up).

 

[board2death986]

please help! this problem sucks


The only other thing I can imagine trying is pulling out the board completely, checking the standoffs and trying different screws, to see if one of them may be grounding the board incorrectly

 

[board2death986]

well now I have no doubts my PSU was on it's way to kicking the bucket *in fact it's dead at time of typing", it turns out for whatever reason the problem is fixed if I simply remove one of the 4 1 GB sticks of memory, which isn't too bad of a fix since the OS will only support just over 3 GB anyway. The slot itself is fine, but if I load up all four slots I get a USB over current status error. . . how my memory slots cause a USB error. . . you got me there