Dear TPU'ers,
I wish to share an unlucky event, for those curious and maybe in the hope of someone understanding this.
After reading some guides I did not progress and consider my Asus Maximus VII Gene dead.
I left for dinner, with a game in it's menu screen, a joystick, a mouse and keyboard, printers, UPS, phone plugged into USB ports. plus a LED headlight for my mountainbike that charges over USB, it was the first time I charged it.
When I returned the PC was locked and screen dark, so I hard resetted it.
After several attemps, a BIOS screen came up, saying USB OVervoltage, will reboot in 15 seconds.
I have performed all tests of all USB ports, un pluging all irrelevant stuff, HDD's, well, all, and I always boot either in
Black screen
UEFI screen with ROG logo and "Press DEL or F2"
or abovementioned warning USB Overvoltage.
In all cases, nothing happens, I cannot boot, get into UEFI BIOS, or use keyboards of varied types.
I have no PS2 keyboard but used an kb-adapter.
Only once, after flashing the UEFI BIOS with a pendrive (with Asus hardware buttons and PC turned off) it went straight into the UEFI, but I could not navigate it.
Anyway, 9 times out of 10, no keyboard lights turn on at boot, so no F2 or DEL works.
6 months old mobo. The mobo I liked most in my life is dead...
Tomorrow I will return it to seller and possibly get a Sabertooth Z97 Mark1.
Still I'd like to UNDERSTAND. Overvoltage? That is USB "feeding" electricity to the mobo, right? WEIRD.
I wish to share an unlucky event, for those curious and maybe in the hope of someone understanding this.
After reading some guides I did not progress and consider my Asus Maximus VII Gene dead.
I left for dinner, with a game in it's menu screen, a joystick, a mouse and keyboard, printers, UPS, phone plugged into USB ports. plus a LED headlight for my mountainbike that charges over USB, it was the first time I charged it.
When I returned the PC was locked and screen dark, so I hard resetted it.
After several attemps, a BIOS screen came up, saying USB OVervoltage, will reboot in 15 seconds.
I have performed all tests of all USB ports, un pluging all irrelevant stuff, HDD's, well, all, and I always boot either in
Black screen
UEFI screen with ROG logo and "Press DEL or F2"
or abovementioned warning USB Overvoltage.
In all cases, nothing happens, I cannot boot, get into UEFI BIOS, or use keyboards of varied types.
I have no PS2 keyboard but used an kb-adapter.
Only once, after flashing the UEFI BIOS with a pendrive (with Asus hardware buttons and PC turned off) it went straight into the UEFI, but I could not navigate it.
Anyway, 9 times out of 10, no keyboard lights turn on at boot, so no F2 or DEL works.
6 months old mobo. The mobo I liked most in my life is dead...
Tomorrow I will return it to seller and possibly get a Sabertooth Z97 Mark1.
Still I'd like to UNDERSTAND. Overvoltage? That is USB "feeding" electricity to the mobo, right? WEIRD.