BSoD Crashes, Random Restarts followed by USB Overcurrent Detected??? Need help figuring out which Component is bad.

[TimHenry]

Hi all,

I have a puzzling situation. My gaming PC that I built is crashing when I'm playing games and when I close out of games. The crashes come in the form of BSoDs. The most recent stop codes I've been seeing are "MEMORY MANAGEMENT" and "irql_not_less_or_equal" with the ntoskrnl.exe failing. I will note that the crashes only occur when the system is under load (playing a game). I ALSO noticed that my CPU temps under load get EXTREMELY hot, as in mid-90s hot (using the stock CPU cooler), so I'm not sure if that would have anything to do with it.

Here comes the weird part...

After the PC attempts to restart, it fails the reboot because of an error screen that reads "Over Current Has Been Detected On Your USB Device!! System will shutdown after 15 seconds to protect your mainboard!!" It will persist after multiple attempts to restart, but after 5-10 minutes of being turned off, I'm able to turn my PC back on.

My Specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x (no OC)
GPU: EVGA RTX 2070 XC (no OC, latest drivers)
RAM: 16 GB Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR4 @ 3000 MHz (no OC or XMP Profiles that I know of)
Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI (I suspect this could be the culprit, as I purchased it as an open-box unit from Microcenter back in 2020, and I remember having to manually bend a pin on the USB 3.0 header on the board)
PSU: Corsair RM1000x 80+ Gold (purchased at the end of 2018)

To add more context:
Other odd happenings are that my PC rarely just randomly restarts while using it. The restarts don't happen too often, but there have been multiple instances where I'd walk away from my PC and come back to find it restarted and everything I had open was closed.
I think I ran a memtest a few months ago that stated hardware problems were detected. I would immediately think my RAM is the culprit, but why would that cause the USB Current Overflow?

So bottom line is that I suspect it's my motherboard and possibly my RAM, but before I spend any money, I would really like to make sure I replace the correct parts. I do want to upgrade, but I need to know where to start. If anyone needs more info/context, please feel free to ask. If someone could please point me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Bad5ector]

Check for bent or mangled pins in your front USB and rear USB ports. Also check to make sure any USB headers on the motherboard don't have bent pins touching. That's usually the cause of that error "Over Current Has Been Detected On Your USB Device", that or an actual faulty USB device.

[TimHenry]

1 minute ago, Bad5ector said:

Check for bent or mangled pins in your front USB and rear USB ports. Also check to make sure any USB headers on the motherboard don't have bent pins touching. That's usually the cause of that error "Over Current Has Been Detected On Your USB Device", that or an actual faulty USB device.

Thanks for the reply. I didn't see any bent pins or mangled USB ports/headers. However, as stated in the post, I did have to manually bend a pin on the USB 3.0 header when I was first installing my motherboard to get the connecter from the front panel to plug in.

 

Also, any ideas on what could be causing the system instability?

[Bad5ector]

4 minutes ago, TimHenry said:

However, as stated in the post, I did have to manually bend a pin on the USB 3.0 header when I was first installing my motherboard to get the connecter from the front panel to plug in.

I know this is going to be PITA, but can you verify that the front USB3 header didn't actually just push that pin back when you plugged in the front USB 3.0? I know that front USB3.0 headers are the absolute worst when it comes to getting the brick to plug in.

[TimHenry]

1 minute ago, Bad5ector said:

I know this is going to be PITA, but can you verify that the front USB3 header didn't actually just push that pin back when you plugged in the front USB 3.0? I know that front USB3.0 headers are the absolute worst when it comes to getting the brick to plug in.

I mean the USB ports on my front panel work perfectly fine, so I would assume that it's plugged in correctly, no? If it's still possible for the ports to work and the pin to be pushed back, I can take a look.

[Bad5ector]

31 minutes ago, TimHenry said:

I mean the USB ports on my front panel work perfectly fine, so I would assume that it's plugged in correctly, no?

Potentially, but if it were me, I'd go that extra mile just to rule it out. Don't know if you saw that collab with Linus and xQc, where he was trying to fix a very similar issue, it had started with instability and then quickly devolved into the USB Overcurrent protection. After Linus inspected all the USB ports on the board and didn't see any damage, he replaced the motherboard and upon closer inspection the motherboards USB-C header was mangled. Something that he couldnt see until he had it all unplugged.