new setup gives me usb over current message, but nothing is plugged in to usb computer shuts off after 10 seconds???

Did you benchtest the board?

If you don't have an OS this could be confusing. You will have to give more details in order to get help 1- OS? 2- what is new setup? Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

Hey jam, when you benchtest a board, what do you do?

"when you benchtest a board, what do you do?" I have a test bench setup in my basement. Basically, it's a 4' x 4' piece of plywood on top of 2 wooden sawhorses. I made the legs of the sawhorses long so that the benchtop is fairly high...that way I can work on my feet instead of sitting down. I generally use the same monitor, keyboard, mouse, PSU, & video card for initial testing. Power runs thru a surge protector. Anyhow, I lay the board on the bench, install the CPU w/HSF, one stick of RAM, & video card (or onboard if available). Then I connect the monitor, keyboard & PSU. I power-up the board by momentarily (& carefully) touching a flat screwdriver blade to the 2 pins that the power switch would normally connect to. That *should* fire up the board. The keyboard is then used to configure the BIOS. I usually let it run for several minutes so that I can monitor the CPU temp.

Its an Asus mobo 775, Kingston 2x 1g 5300 dual channel ram. Pentium D 3.2 2x2mb cache xfx 7600gt 256ram pci express, lite on dvd 20x burner, Apevia 500w psu, 250g ide western digital hard drive. The problem occured before os was installed, it will be windows xp pro sp2 (if i figure this out??) Also i unplugged front usb wires and it didnt change a thing.

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnx... Maybe that site will help! Good Luck Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks