USB overcurrent detected, shutting down in 15 seconds to protect the mainboard.

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Last night me and a buddy did some upgrades on my computer, new HDD and SSD, a new psu, eventually everything gets working but then we run into "USB device over current status detected will shut down in 15 second". Now I've tried all the fixes i've seen on the internet - unplug all peripherals, unplugged the case USBs, HD audio, only thing that is plugged in is CPU, RAM, and the SSD and HDD. Now neither of the SSD or HDD have anything on them. I would love avoiding having to go drop another $140 on a new motherboard so if anyone has any clue why this is happening out of nowhere, let me know!

Full build is here
CPU: i7-6700k @ 4.0 (hyper 212 evo)
GPU: EVGA 980 acx 2.0
RAM: 16gb Corsair Vengeance
SSD: Sandisk 240gb ssd plus
HDD: Toshiba 1tb
Mobo: MSI z170a gaming M5
 
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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2411250/overcurrent-detected-usb-device-system-shut-seconds-protect-motherboard.html

On the above link, johnblaze mentions a jumper. Now I had the same issue popping up suddenly, and this solved the issue.

If you had to do a CMOS Reset by shorting the CMOS Reset pins, this might be the issue.

In my case, I had taken out a jumper from the motherboard to short the CMOS Reset pins, then I had reinserted the jumper back from where I had taken back. It turned out that I had misplaced the jumper while putting it back. In my case there was a 3 pin connection where I took out the 2 pin jumper, and instead of putting it back to the left and middle pins, I had put it on middle and right pins...
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Oh jeeze that was dumb of me. The motherboard is over a year old so I think RMAing it is out of the picture.
 
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have you tried putting old hard drives back in to exclude them? Have you actually plugged in all cables from new PSU? Have you tired old psu? I would eliminate the new parts before assuming a old part has failed since you touched it?
 
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Well the reason i got a new hdd/ssd was because my old one fried so I cant test that. The new PSU was working everything was going well. We installed the heatsink and then after that it started popping out this error.
 
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Unless your MoBo was a refurb. (IOW: wasn't brand new and unused) you have a 3 year warranty on it. Now, are you saying the MoBo is older than that?
 
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I didn't know that, but it was open box from microcenter.
 
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http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2411250/overcurrent-detected-usb-device-system-shut-seconds-protect-motherboard.html

On the above link, johnblaze mentions a jumper. Now I had the same issue popping up suddenly, and this solved the issue.

If you had to do a CMOS Reset by shorting the CMOS Reset pins, this might be the issue.

In my case, I had taken out a jumper from the motherboard to short the CMOS Reset pins, then I had reinserted the jumper back from where I had taken back. It turned out that I had misplaced the jumper while putting it back. In my case there was a 3 pin connection where I took out the 2 pin jumper, and instead of putting it back to the left and middle pins, I had put it on middle and right pins.




 
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