Reformating all USB ports turn off

Feb 25, 2018
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I am building a new setup and want to use my old HDD but reformat them. I put it all together and it post fine and can go around the BIOS, but when I try to boot to usb for image or if I just load straight into my win7 already on a HDD all the ports turn off. Unfortunately I don't have any ps mouse/keyboard so I'm trying to find a workaround. The board is a asus x370-Pro BIOS version .0612 and CPU is Ryzen 7 1700X. It is detecting everything properly in the BIOS and everything seems to be running smoothly. I have looked into the different BIOS options for my USB and only found these options:

Legacy USB Support - Enabled
XHCI Hand-off - Enabled/Disabled (I have tried both as I have seen others mention this can cause issies)
USB Device Enable - Disabled/Enabled (I have tried both)

And USB Single Port Control which just enables and disables specific ports. Also sometimes when editing the BIOS the pc will cycle 3 times before post. If you need any additional information let me know, I was going to try to boot to a linux as soon as I can load one on my flash drive, but I don't have much hope for that.
 
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How did you create the USB stick? If you used Windows 10 from creation tool, get the ISO file directly then use Rufus to create the USB as described here which clearly shows there are 2 ways to create the USB... MBR partition using NTFS partition for older PCs and new ones have to use GPT parition with Fat32 filesystem. Try the latter, most newer PCs needs it for UEFI installer. No idea why MS does not fix the creation tool, lol.

And yes good idea to get linux like Ubuntu 17.10.1 desktop on a live USB, I boot one up on every build just for a sanity check to run an OS before I do the windows install.
How did you create the USB stick? If you used Windows 10 from creation tool, get the ISO file directly then use Rufus to create the USB as described here which clearly shows there are 2 ways to create the USB... MBR partition using NTFS partition for older PCs and new ones have to use GPT parition with Fat32 filesystem. Try the latter, most newer PCs needs it for UEFI installer. No idea why MS does not fix the creation tool, lol.

And yes good idea to get linux like Ubuntu 17.10.1 desktop on a live USB, I boot one up on every build just for a sanity check to run an OS before I do the windows install.
 
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