Lost USB 2, then power to the computer

[Bruce]

I would be removing all components from the case and re-assembling on a piece of cardboard somewhere.
forget the front panel LED’s and switches, not needed, just short out the PWR SW jumpers with anything metallic to start the PC.

[highstream]

Will give it a try in a day or two and report, thanks

[highstream]

Before I do it, the question that comes to mind is that if it doesn’t work, how will I know if it’s the board or the PSU?

[PeterOz]

Got a friend or relo you can borrow a PSU from

[highstream]

No

[PeterOz]

try Post #16 and use on board start button

[Bruce]

what about work colleague or neighbour to get a loan of a PSU?

[highstream]

Unfortunately, no luck there. I’m thinking at this point that it’d be most efficient and not costly to ask a local shop to answer the question: board, PSU or (unlikely) case. Always a holiday weekend when things like this happen… Thanks to everyone.

[Bruce]

that was my nest suggestion - a local shop.
they’ll definitely have some spare PSU’s to quickly test that theory.

good luck and keep us posted.

[Bruce]

@highstream - any progress?

[highstream]

Turns out it was the board. The PSU and case USB2 and everything else are working fine. Normally, I’d do the rebuild, but the tech offered to let me buy the parts, i.e., at Amazon, and bring them in for him to do the install. Saves me a lot of time and money, the work is guaranteed and he has a way to get my Win 10 drive up and running that will save me the hassle of reinstalls. One thing I didn’t know, or at least he claims, is that current boards don’t typically have more than a couple of SATA ports – I need 6 – so he suggested adding a Broadcom Host Bus Adapter.

Thanks to all for your patient help. I guess it’s a sign of the times that one’s main computer going dead gives the same kind of feeling as if one has been burglarized.

[Bruce]

glad you have it all sorted. (y)

as to him saying most modern boards have limited SATA ports - I’d take that with a big grain of salt.
admittedly I usually only get Gigebyte boards, but they always come with either 4 or 6 ports on the baord itself.

[highstream]

Thanks for the heads up about Gigabyte, which seems to have 6 SATA ports commonly. I’ll admit not having a good experience with one of their boards several years ago, but worth a look. My search for others didn’t find a lot, but MSI has at least one and ASRock has an 8 in 12th Gen boards. I’ll follow up with the tech. Having to pay $200+ for two more SATA ports is not enticing.

[Bruce]

just my two cents of experience with Gigabyte…

I used to get whatever board was in the budget for the PC I was building, but one trip back to the wholesale parts supplier to RMA a hard drive, I saw a storage rack in the back of their shop, full of ASUS motherboards. they were standing side-up on the shelf, there were 5 shelves and there must have been at least 15 boxes per shelf.

obviously all I saw was this rack of ASUS mobo’s to RMA and nothing of the reason or history, and it was about 12 years ago, but it didn’t give me any reason to ever try ASUS, so I stuck with only using Gigabyte.

at a rough guess, I would have purchased more than 200 of their mobo’s and over the course of running my local PC business, I can honestly say only one board was returned, and it was still under warranty.

but as i say, that’s just my experience, I’m sure others have used Gigabyte and hate them.

[highstream]

The board suggested that I ordered is Amazon.com (I’m not a gamer). Which roughly equivalent Gigabyte board(s) would you recimmend?