[8bit]

Hello,

I created this as a separate thread to my thread about the AN8 Ultra crashing on install as I've resolved that issue. Basically what happens now is that the machine won't POST when there are any USB devices attached whatsoever, mice, keyboard, webcam, flash disk, nothing. Additionally, even when the USB controller drivers that came with the mobo are installed and XP is running, plugging any USB device in results in nothing happening at all.

If it was just XP not seeing stuff I'd have thought it was a driver issue but the board won't POST so I'm stumped, other than a faulty board. The board has the latest BIOS from abit's website and I did the "clear CMOS" thing after flashing the BIOS as advised.

In the BIOS I have the following USB related options:

USB Controller - options are "Disabled", "V1.1+V2.0" (currently selected), V1.1
USB Memory type - options are "SHADOW" (currently selected) and "Base Memory"
USB Keyboard Support - options are "Enabled" and "Disabled", tried both settings
USB Mouse Support - options as for USB Keyboard, again tried both

when it attempts to POST the LED status display on the bottom right corner of the board says 50 which the manual informs me means "USB Initialise". No USB hubs are attached, this behaviour happens even when devices are attached to the hardwired ports on the board itself as well as when attached to front panel sockets.

Any ideas? I'm losing sleep over this thing now and I'll probably never buy another ABit board again...