New PC Build: USB overcurrent status detected
Need help, I've tried everything I can think of.
Hello all
Tldr: PC was working earlier today, got home from work to play some games, and was met with "USB overcurrent status detected restarting in 15 seconds" tried everything I can find online to fix it. Now PC won't even turn on, nothing happening when the power button is pressed.
Case: Dan A4-H2O
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X3D
CPU Cooler: EK 240mm AIO RGB
Motherboard: Asus ROG strix B550-I gaming
Ram: Corsair LPX 32 GB 3600 MHz CL 18
Boot drive: Crucial P3 1TB m.2
Storage drive: Crucial P3 Plus 4TB m.2
GPU: EVGA RTX 3070 ti FTW3
Power supply: Corsair SF750
It's a lot of hardware crammed into 11L of space. It is my perfect PC, but I have never dealt with so many issues with a build before. I will try to lay out the issues in order to see if someone can assist me in troubleshooting.
Background: I am having the weirdest experience building my new PC. I have built numerous PC's, helping friends get theirs set up and what not and wanted a challenge/upgrade so decided to build a SFF PC. I have never had so many issues in my past builds. This is almost an entirely new PC with only the GPU migrating from my last PC. I am going to provide as much detail as I can below.
Took my time on the build there were definitely some pieces of the build process that took more force than I would like, but over the course of 3 days I got it all put together and got into the BIOS. Installed windows and everything was dandy, until I realized that drives over 2.1 TB cannot use MBR formatting which the windows install defaulted to. Even though I selected my 1TB drive for windows to be installed on, it installed the recovery files to my storage drive. Wiped everything and reset windows, took out the 4 TB drive, entered BIOS and changed to UEFI. Reinstalled windows using a GPT partition. Reinstalled the storage drive. Huzzah, it worked can have the full 4TB partition using GPT partitioning.
Now the second problem, I installed all the windows 10 updates, installed new GPU drivers, and began to run some benchmarks for thermal testing and fine tuning of fan curves. Ran Cinebench R23 and realized my CPU was not boosting to its all core clocks. After some research and perusing the BIOS, I found that the BIOS could be the issue as it was a version before 5000 series was officially supported. Found the most recent BIOS on Asus's website and followed the instructions using the BIOS flashback button on the motherboard. Never had done this before so it freaked me out and was worried my power would shut off. Took about 5 minutes and it was done. Powered back on and entered BIOS, success the BIOS version was updated and correct. Changed to XMP, and gen4 pcie after confirming it had booted to windows.
Continued on with Cinebench R23 and was finally reaching my all core boost clocks. Didn't run any GPU benchmarks as I was familiar with the performance. Installed steam and began downloading games. The rest of the day everything was great, played some games and everything was great. Idle Temps of CPU and GPU were about 30C and when gaming CPU at 65C and GPU at 60C.
Today I booted up the PC and immediately noticed something strange as it froze as soon as I signed into windows. Had to manually power off and restart, no issues on second boot. Watch some YouTube and get ready for work.
Fast forward to tonight, come home after a long day to play some games, power on the PC to see post and then "USB over current status detected shutting down in 15 seconds" I immediately unplugged all USB devices and tried again, to get the same message. I looked in every USB port to see if there was anything inside that could cause a short or if something was broken. To my eye, everything looked completely normal. So I took it apart and disconnected front panel usb c and usb 3.0 still got the same error.
Used some canned air to blow out the usb ports just to be sure, same error. Powered off PC took it apart again, took out power supply completely, verified all connections were solid and went to start the PC again. PC flashed on and off 3 times before shutting down. I knew something bad happened but tried again, same error. Took apart again, replaced the usb connectors to the motherboard. Same problem. Flashed a new bios, cleared CMOS, same problem.
At this point I HOPE its just my motherboard thats toast. Any and all advise is welcomed, I imagine I just witnessed my motherboard dying, but really want to avoid the RMA process so send any suggestions my way.
Many thanks in advance.