I bought an Intel BOXDP965LTCK LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard from Newegg.com September of last year. The USB pin connecters on the motherboard have never worked. I wasn't too excited about this, but at the time it wasn't a big deal. Well, I have been getting these messages lately say Power Surge on USB hub. I tried unplugging everything from the back and I still get this message. Does anyone have any advice on what this is or how to fix it? Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo G.Skill 1GB DDR26400 Sapphire Radeon X1900XT Seagate 320GB HDD Windows XP Professional

"The USB pin connecters on the motherboard have never worked" Are you sure you connected the case wiring correctly? The Wiring is shown on page 42 / Figure 22 of the online manual...also page 46 / Table 11. They may also need to be enabled in the BIOS.

""The USB pin connecters on the motherboard have never worked"" " Are you sure you connected the case wiring correctly? " USB pinouts were never standardized. Mboard manufactures tend to use the same pinouts for many of their own mboards, but there are several different common pinout arrangements, and also some oddballs. If you get a USB wiring adapter/port plate that comes with the mboard when it is new, it will work for sure, but wiring adapters from your case USB ports or from a adapter/port plate you buy separately may not work with the mboard usb header's pinouts. See your mboard manual , bios settings, as jam has pointed out. The drivers for the mboard must be loaded after Windows has been installed the first time, after Setup has finished , or after Windows has been installed from scratch at any time, so that Windows has all the proper info about the capabilities of the mboard. If you don't load the drivers, your USB 1.x capability will probably work, but the USB 2.0 capability will probably not. I have seen some computers that have USB 2.0 controllers turned off in the bios by default. .. "Well, I have been getting these messages lately say Power Surge on USB hub." I got this message on a computer I was working on just the other day, for the first time ever. It turned out the case had a 4 pin position and a 5 pin position female connector - the 5 position one has two grounds, one for the USB, the other for the USB port shell. The mboard USB header has 9 pins, on a ten position header; the 5pin female connector from the case was connected properly to the 5 pin side, the 4 position connector from the was connected properly to the 4 pin side,and the case wiring and mboard pinouts were compatible. Removing the connectors from the case stopped the Power Surge error. When I installed the 4 position connector on the 5 pin side so that it was not on the 5th pin but all the other pins were correct, and installed the 5 position connector on the 4 pin side so that the wiring for the first 4 pins was correct, the Power Surge error message went away and has not come back since.

Well, I don't have anything connected to the Motherboard pins either so I don't know why it would still say Power Surge if nothing is connected to it. I even e-mailed Intel about this and went through all there troubleshooting guides but no luck with that. I looked through my BIOS and my USB pins were enabled I believe. I tried updating the USB drivers and the BIOS. The reason I am thinking that it might be a bad board is because my mic port seems to be messed up. I tried everything to get that working good, but no matter how loud I turn it up people still have trouble hearing me. Should I just RMA the board because it says it has a 3 year warrenty. Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo G.Skill 1GB DDR26400 Sapphire Radeon X1900XT Seagate 320GB HDD Windows XP Professional

If you have the case microphone port hooked up to pins on the mboard, you may have a similar mis-wiring problem that is causing the Power Surge message even though you have nothing on the mboard USB pins - check your mboard manual, or disconnect the front mic port and try the one on the mboard. The impedence (xxxx ohms) of microphones varies, and each sound chipset has a specific requirement of what that should be - if the microphone you are trying to use is a poor impedence match to what the sound requires, the mic may not have enough output - you may need to get a microphone with a significantly different impedence. Also look in your sound mixer settings - sometimes there is a mic boost setting, such as in Options - Properties. Flashing the bios is not a cure-all. If you don't find any specific mention of a cure for a problem you are having in release notes or similar for a bios update or previous bios updates that are newer than what you have, flashing the bios will almost always not help. The bios has little to do with sound, other than being able to turn onboard sound on or off - everything else about the sound is determined by the drivers for the sound. If you have the proper complete set of drivers - actually, *.inf files - loaded for your Intel chipset, there is no need to load USB drivers - they are included in the driver set. If you aren't sure if you have the right drivers loaded, get the latest available INF Update utility for your chipset directly from the Intel web site and install them. You must have at least XP SP1 updates loaded to support USB 2.0 on the mboard.

Ok, sorry for confusing you lol. I was bringing up the fact of the microphone to see if it was the motherboard that was bad. I have the mic plugged into the motherboard only. I have every driver updated and there all working fine. I have the mic booster set to max. I'm think it might be the mic because I did only pay $10 for it, but the reason I though it was the motherboard is because it worked perfectly on my other PC. This isn't a case of mis-wiring because I have nothing wired to the motherboard. I haven't gotten the message recently, but I did nothing different so the problem could still arise. Another reason that brought me to believe that it was the mobo was because I bought a multi-card reader and I had wired it exactly as the manuel said, but that never worked. So basically nothing has ever worked on the USB pins, but the back USB ports work fine. Also, were you saying that the microphone could be causing USB power surge? If so, then could speakers cause USB power surge? Thanks for the help by the way, I have posted this problem on many forums and you guys are the only ones who provided an answer. Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo G.Skill 1GB DDR26400 Sapphire Radeon X1900XT Seagate 320GB HDD Windows XP Professional

"...were you saying that the microphone could be causing USB power surge? If so, then could speakers cause USB power surge?" No, not likely. The only time I have seen that message was recently, as in response 2. If it was because the mboard could not cope with the supposed shell ground from the case, I guessed it could be caused by miswired mic header wiring on the mboard too, since the front ports may share the same shell ground. The reason the mic doesn't work so well could certainly be because it's impedence is not what is required for the sound chipset on the mboard.