Originally posted here by foxyloxley
Get a DVM [digital volt meter] and check that you are getting what it says [3v / 5v / 12v]
then try re-loading your USB drivers.
Do you have your USB ports on a PCI card ?
Remove, clean, re-seat.


Where EXACTLY was the POS ?

Are you competent / confidant enough to strip the MoBo bare ?
And if so, why haven't you done this as soon as you 'kicked the bottom of the MoBo up'

Post back with whatever you find.


Good and bad..........
Ok, what exactly I did was take all my crap off the mobo, and flip it upside down to screw on the new heatsink. It was just a normal mounting plate (not like the one on the front which holds the heatsink, this is that it screws into on the bottom), but it was glued to the motherboard, so as stated above, I had to pry it off. The only visibile damage done was from the screwdriver.

As for the voltages...Asus probe reports the +12, +5, and +3.35 as ~12.3, ~5.15, ~3.34 respectively.

All my usb ports are on my mobo, so i'm gonna try reloading the drivers now.