New PC Fault

[soze]

Having a problem with a new build it has

P5K SE/EPU
Club 3D 8800GT
4gb Kensington HyperX (800)
Netgear Wireless Card
2.4gh Quad
500gb Samsung HD
Sata DVD RW

All if that on a 430 Antec Neo PS.

Now the problem seems to be whith the USB on the mobo if it has 3 banks of 2 USB if the KB and Mouse are in one and i plug a Disk key into another the KB and Mouse stop working. I have read it could be a power problem but i run the same power supply on a near identical set up and its fine. Could power bean issue or is it likely the MOBO is faulty.

 

[Kryten]

It *could* be. The supply may work fine with another setup but with a different motherboard the distribution will differ greatly.

Before saying too much though, plug everything else but the final killing item, fire up device manager and open the USB properties hubs, check the power draw on each hub.

Have you tried any other USB hardware?
Assuming plugging anything else in gives the same unwanted result, try plugging in something self powered (via mains). If it still kills the keyboard and mouse, it's not likely to be a power issue and would point at a strange software problem or at the worst, an iffy board.

Before suggesting a fault though, reset your bios to factory defaults other than your boot orders etc, and/or flash the bios to the latest version.

 

[soze]

It *could* be. The supply may work fine with another setup but with a different motherboard the distribution will differ greatly.

Before saying too much though, plug everything else but the final killing item, fire up device manager and open the USB properties hubs, check the power draw on each hub.

Have you tried any other USB hardware?
Assuming plugging anything else in gives the same unwanted result, try plugging in something self powered (via mains). If it still kills the keyboard and mouse, it's not likely to be a power issue and would point at a strange software problem or at the worst, an iffy board.

Before suggesting a fault though, reset your bios to factory defaults other than your boot orders etc, and/or flash the bios to the latest version.

I have already updated the bios part of the software install is a usb 2 driver i might look for a more recent version i have only tried disk keys so far but i will try a USB (mains powered) hard disk and my ipod see what happens then. Cheers for the suggestions.

The Asus website suggests a 500w power supply could it be the supply is too low? could the 45n chip in my pc vs the older type in this one make a difference?

 

[Kryten]

No, if anything the smaller process CPU will be easier on power requirements.
Previous to my current PSU I was running an Akasa 460w supply with *far* more hardware - an 8800GT, 4gb ram, 5 hdds, twin DVD drives and e6600 chip. That would fall over a long way before the kit you've listed there

 

[Gahn]

Buy an Usb Hub ^^