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[Nickbat]

Late last night I rebooted my PC and, after the initial Disk scan, presumably as the BIOS was loading, I was greeted with the following message: 

"USB device overcurrent detected. System will shut down in 15 seconds"

As I need the PC for work, and was unable to get on the web to find solutions, I decided that since I still got the message with all my USBs disconnected, it had to be my mobo (someone on here is now bound to tell me it wasn't!!  ).

So, this morning I went to Maplin and purchased an AMD X4 9350 Quad Core c/w a GeForce 8100VM-M5 Mobo. Oh, and also a 650w PSU.

Got everything up and running by 1.30pm.

I can't say that it's lightening fast but, before last night's problem, my PC was as quick as an arthritic tortoise walking on porridge, and it is certainly faster than that now. I suspect I may have other issues to sort out (like a defrag!).

Anyway, I've kept the old mobo processor in case it is not fubared and may be resurrected in a slave PC for my daughter.

Expensive day,  but at least I'm back in production now. 

[kev2b4]

I keep getting told I should back my data ( that I want) onto external hard drive- then if it fubars - but another laptop!  - Eventually I will get organised!

[Mr Skrunts]

I work between 2 PC's and back one up to the other for the main files I work which.

Could actually do with something that would mirror "My Documents" on a main PC with all my other PC's, would save a hell of a lot of time and data if there was a problem.

[djac]

Are your machines on a network? If so, map folders on the other machines as network drives on your main one, then use something like Robocopy (free from MS I'm told) to 'mirror' specified folder(s) from the main machine to the others.

[BigAl]

Synctoy - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52&displaylang=en is GUI based while robocopy is command line driven

[Mr Skrunts]

Are your machines on a network? If so, map folders on the other machines as network drives on your main one, then use something like Robocopy (free from MS I'm told) to 'mirror' specified folder(s) from the main machine to the others.

hehe, might be busy for a while, thanks.   

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=robocopy

[BigAl]

Late last night I rebooted my PC and, after the initial Disk scan, presumably as the BIOS was loading, I was greeted with the following message: 

"USB device overcurrent detected. System will shut down in 15 seconds"

As I need the PC for work, and was unable to get on the web to find solutions, I decided that since I still got the message with all my USBs disconnected, it had to be my mobo (someone on here is now bound to tell me it wasn't!!  ).

So, this morning I went to Maplin and purchased an AMD X4 9350 Quad Core c/w a GeForce 8100VM-M5 Mobo. Oh, and also a 650w PSU.

Got everything up and running by 1.30pm.

I can't say that it's lightening fast but, before last night's problem, my PC was as quick as an arthritic tortoise walking on porridge, and it is certainly faster than that now. I suspect I may have other issues to sort out (like a defrag!).

Anyway, I've kept the old mobo processor in case it is not fubared and may be resurrected in a slave PC for my daughter.

Expensive day,  but at least I'm back in production now. 

if you get that message with all external devices unplugged, it may point towards the front USB Header cable shorting out

[Mr Skrunts]

Are your machines on a network? If so, map folders on the other machines as network drives on your main one, then use something like Robocopy (free from MS I'm told) to 'mirror' specified folder(s) from the main machine to the others.

hehe, might be busy for a while, thanks.   

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=robocopy

This looks interesting.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52