Question Asus p8-z77-v lx motherboard will not post or let me into the bios.

[apocalypticx]

Good morning everyone,
the system specs are as follows:

Asus p8-z77-v lx motherboard
i7 3770k cpu
Corsair bronze 750watt psu
Kingston hyper x beast ddr2? ram 16gb 2 x 8gb sticks
Gpu Asus Nividia Geforce 660 Ti


I know the source of the problem which is a couple, of USB ports, the pins are bent or contacting part of the system thus shorting out the board before it boots, everything else was working fine til a week or more ago.

Is there anyway either using a bios editing tool or any known way to switch the ports off, or even desolder them off etc to fix this really annoying
"overcharge current status message I keep getting"

Thanks

 

[helpstar]

just cut the pins of the USB ports

 

[apocalypticx]

OK thanks done this, and I'm still not even getting a post or black screen the, ethernet is lighting up with Amber instead, of the usual green light any more suggestions?

 

[apocalypticx]

Anyone have any ideas I can test before scrap this motherboard and buy a second hand or new one.
Anyons know of a cheap motherboard to replace this even considering Chinese crap too!