PcBytes wrote:

filipetolhuizen wrote:

So, that's the reason why front USB ports tend to burn so much...

I assume you had USB ports burn stuff?

I hadn't 'cause the power in here is damn well prepared and safe. But I've seen some burnt USB front ports in places I used to work.

filipetolhuizen wrote:

PcBytes wrote:

filipetolhuizen wrote:

So, that's the reason why front USB ports tend to burn so much...

I assume you had USB ports burn stuff?

I hadn't 'cause the power in here is damn well prepared and safe. But I've seen some burnt USB front ports in places I used to work.

Oh. Nasty indeed.

I've had a 16GB Hama pendrive burn due to a improperly wired USB front port - + was swapped with - *facepalm*

Okay - this is for TELVM,and I've apparently found it through some tom's hardware posts:

I noticed that this problem does not occured with older motherboard (before october 2004). Like I mentionned in the beginning of […]
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I noticed that this problem does not occured with older motherboard
(before october 2004). Like I mentionned in the beginning of my post,
when this problem occured the first time (in october 2004) I did a lot
of search on the web but I didn't found nothing. But since december
2004, there's a lot of posting about this problem. As this mobo comes
out in early 2004 (maybe before), and there's no problem before october
2004, maybe they changed something in the board around october 2004 and
this cause the problem ???

My guess is that pre-October 2004 boards are safe (mine's a Rev 1.02 one built in 37th week of 2004 (early September) and it's the post-October 2004 boards which develop the latchup.

I might be wrong on this though,anybody who has a pre-Oct. 2004 board (January-September) and a post-Oct 2004 board (October onwards),please do some extended research to confirm what I said or infirm what I said.