Hey guys, not sure where to put my question but this forum seems closest.
Some 2 weeks ago, my pc froze, I had to restart it (this had been happening a lot lately) but this time I couldn't start my pc anymore. Turned out the pc wouldn't start with the GPU plugged in. So I sent it for RMA, but I also noticed that my USB 3.0 ports don't work. They provide power but windows doesn't recognize them at all and device manager says that the asmedia hcxi driver wasnt able to launch, code 10 or something like that. I tried all possible drivers, I tried clearing CMOS and all the remedies I could find online, nothing helped. I even did a clean install of windows. On top of this problem, I started having this problem that sometimes upon pressing the power button, the pc doesn't even go to the Asus(pre-bios screen) and freezes with a white dash (non blinking, frozen). So I have to restart and then after several tries it goes into windows. There are also other times when the screen shows a screen with "USB device over current detected, system will shut down in 15 seconds" I tried removing all the USB devices and it still does that. 5restarts fix this though.
What I'd like to know is - what could be the cause? Could a bad PSU cause this? Or is it the motherboard? Mzy MB is Asus h81 plus, PSU is seasonic 500w which ive had for some 7 years now, the GPU I had was r9 270.
Thanks a lot for any ideas!!
Regards, George
Some 2 weeks ago, my pc froze, I had to restart it (this had been happening a lot lately) but this time I couldn't start my pc anymore. Turned out the pc wouldn't start with the GPU plugged in. So I sent it for RMA, but I also noticed that my USB 3.0 ports don't work. They provide power but windows doesn't recognize them at all and device manager says that the asmedia hcxi driver wasnt able to launch, code 10 or something like that. I tried all possible drivers, I tried clearing CMOS and all the remedies I could find online, nothing helped. I even did a clean install of windows. On top of this problem, I started having this problem that sometimes upon pressing the power button, the pc doesn't even go to the Asus(pre-bios screen) and freezes with a white dash (non blinking, frozen). So I have to restart and then after several tries it goes into windows. There are also other times when the screen shows a screen with "USB device over current detected, system will shut down in 15 seconds" I tried removing all the USB devices and it still does that. 5restarts fix this though.
What I'd like to know is - what could be the cause? Could a bad PSU cause this? Or is it the motherboard? Mzy MB is Asus h81 plus, PSU is seasonic 500w which ive had for some 7 years now, the GPU I had was r9 270.
Thanks a lot for any ideas!!
Regards, George