USB Devices over current status (power lack? toasted usb?)

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jmcuriel

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Hello all,

I was playing Skyrim and suddenly my usb devices stopped working, and I had to shut down my rig. I had the message "USB Devices over current status".

I'm using 3 usb devices: Zgaming keyboard, logitech G13 Gaming KB and Razer Mamba 2012 gaming mouse.

I managed to make them working again if I unplug them and plug in another USB Port, well, sort of. I see how usb power fails if I plug again the 3 devices, sooner or later depending on wich port I use to do it.

Finally, I managed to plug again the devices except the Razer Mamba one, wich I substituted with another gaming mouse. I'm yet to test it in gaming/intensive use.

My rig specs are:
MONITOR: Asus PG348Q 34" WLED UWQHD
Nox Hummer MC USB 3.0
POWER: Corsair TX850M 850W 80 Plus Gold Semi Modular
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V Red DDR4 3000 PC4-24000 16GB 2x8GB CL15
GRAPHIC CARD: Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme 11GB GDDR5X
PROCESSOR: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 4.3 Ghz
MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus X470 Ultra Gaming
DISC Samsung 960 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD PCI-e 500GB

I purchased this rig in april 2018, and a few weeks ago I had to send it to seller to change the graphic card as it stopped working, dont know what caused it.

Now I cannot use my Mamba mouse and I'm still checking the ports. Still, I am worried about the situation and Im not sure how should I manage it:

- do you think the usb issue is due to mobo problem?

- do you think the USB ports are toasted or damaged?

- I noticed my PC was very hot yesterday before the USB issue. Still, I could not check the temperature as my periphericals did not worked. Can an overheated rig damage the usb ports/devices? what temperature is DANGEROUS for my components?

- The problem could be power related? Im using a 850W Corsair TX850M with a high demanding hardware, playing in 4K most of the time, and this happened with a highly modified skyrim, wich is a 7 years old game but with a lot of graphical improvements

I would appreciate any aditional clue or tip to figure if USB ports are fine. Is there a way to check them out? Should I send my rig to the seller again?

Sorry for this amount of questions, I hope you dont mind being "harrased" by this noobish issues.

Thanks in advance!!

 
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Well.....this "USB Devices over current status" indicates.....

one (or more, but doubtful) of the devices you have hooked up to the USB seems to be drawing too much current.

Being you have 3 devices hooked up....I would disconnect one.....and run like that and see if it happens.....if it doesn't.....it's probably that device......if it does.....I'd hook the one up you unhooked and I'd unhook another and try it.....until I found the device that was drawing too much current.
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Well.....this "USB Devices over current status" indicates.....

one (or more, but doubtful) of the devices you have hooked up to the USB seems to be drawing too much current.

Being you have 3 devices hooked up....I would disconnect one.....and run like that and see if it happens.....if it doesn't.....it's probably that device......if it does.....I'd hook the one up you unhooked and I'd unhook another and try it.....until I found the device that was drawing too much current.
 
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jmcuriel

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I have to work on it a bit more but I guess I found the culprit in my mamba mouse. I'm yet to try the mouse in other computer, though, to check it.

I'm worried about damages in MOBO or Power suply issues, wich could be made by problems with power/voltage or heat, and I'd like to know how to check it if I can.

Anyway, the mouse worked like a charm since april up to yesterday. Can it just broke in some way????

Thank you for your answer, though. Appreciated.
 
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"Anyway, the mouse worked like a charm since april up to yesterday. Can it just broke in some way????
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Yes.....pretty much everything works before it breaks. lol

If you think the culprit is the Mamba....I would probably not try it on any other machine as you may risk damaging the other machine.

If the mouse draws too much current.....which is what the indications are....you might damage a motherboard.
 
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yep, this is reasonable. I wont try mamba in other rig. Thanks

I have another way to check it. Mamba comes with a charging/wireless receiver. I will plug it instead the mouse itself to check it out
 
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USB ports each have a limit on how much current they can supply. You do not say whether those three devices all were connected to one single port via a hub of some sort, or whether they each were connected to separate USB ports on your computer. So if they were NOT each connected separately, you could try doing it that way so the each port used is supplying power to only ONE device.
 
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that a good point, thanks for pointing it. I conect all of them in different ports, I never use any hub if I can avoid it
 
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